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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

On Thursday night the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, who do not like each other, completed a four-game series in ...

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 ...

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

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