True heat—the overwhelming hot wall that hits you the minute you step out of a door, that takes your breath and makes it into ...

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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 and bad. Today is a good day; I haven’t even needed a patch today.

We’ve all been there. Your buddy and former editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell has an acclaimed new book about the predatory ...

There was a sequence in the fourth quarter of Game 5 Monday night where I very nearly chewed through my shirt collar. I ...

You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial ...

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Reading or watching the news has become a real nightmare for me, as I imagine it must be for anyone reading this. Each day seems to bring some new horror or tragedy, and if the non-stop procession of ...

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 ...