Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about ...

The Platonic ideal of a chameleon, at least for those of us with televisions, is a small, somewhat nervous-looking reptile ...

It’s tough being a dad. It’s even tougher raising a young woman in a horrifying patriarchal society that is constantly ...

Musab Al-Debs has lost 75 percent of his body weight. The 14-year-old reportedly weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) before he ...

Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the ...

When Ray Ratto told you that you could get “hard mathematical reasons” for the Milwaukee Brewers’ inexplicable win streak ...

Michael “Curious Mike” Porter Jr. has made another podcast appearance. The former Denver Nugget and prolific podcaster was traded to the Brooklyn Nets a few months ago, simultaneously putting him in a ...

There’s a way this Washington Mystics season could have been kind of tedious. In the offseason, and again at the August trade deadline, the rebuilding team swapped its veterans for a collection of ...

The first weekend of a new Premier League season is a time for optimism and for excitement. Even after an overstuffed summer of soccer, which this year brought us the Club World Cup, the women’s Euros ...

The climax of the new movie War of the Worlds features cheap-looking CGI’d clips of large robots standing next to large buildings, cut together with b-roll clips of B-2 stealth bombers in flight and ...

On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE ...

Nostalgia is the only reason why there’s a new Planet Hollywood in Times Square. But my nostalgia is different from everybody ...