The base, corrupting, disenchanting influence of money has allegedly been right on the cusp of ruining everything good, noble ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Five days and multiple ...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working ...

I was convinced it was happening again. With 7:41 left in Sunday night’s NBA Finals Game 7, the Oklahoma City Thunder took a ...

No soap operas, just crosswords. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Matthew Stock and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Matthew is a ...

There are a lot of things we deserve as people. A rational world in which killing civilians for amusement is not an ...

Richard Jefferson’s exact words—so help me God—were, “If Tyrese Haliburton was still playing, and it was a 15-point lead with ...

The inevitable has happened. The Phoenix Suns have traded Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets, as first reported by Shams ...

A week before I was hired at Defector, I decided to quit vaping. This was kind of a while ago now, but I still have good days ...

Fifty years ago, the hot comedy skit was Saturday Night Live’s “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”, a play on the ...

For the first time in American sports history, a team has been sold on an 11-figure valuation. News broke Wednesday that the ...

The best pitchers in baseball were going to pitch on the same day! In the same place! Walking distance from my home! On a day I didn’t have to work! This dream confluence would give me a chance to ...