Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier extolled the benefits of the concentration camp they were rushing to build in the ...

It’s fitting that 15 years after LeBron James created the most memorable summer in NBA history, we finally have an offseason ...

On Thursday night, right before a long summer holiday weekend, the New York Times published a triple-bylined bombshell: 16 ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

Tadej Pogacar’s 100th win as a professional rider was a perfect synecdoche of the other 99, partially in how he won it and ...

In addition to being deeply bad, the Washington Nationals are also profoundly unserious. These traits tend to go together, ...

The peerless superiority of the Spain women’s national soccer team is primarily a matter of technique. There’s no national team in the world that can put so many exquisite technical players on the ...

Aryna Sabalenka eked out an ugly win in her Wimbledon quarterfinal Tuesday, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. The top player on the WTA was taken to her limit by an unlikely figure: Laura Siegemund, the 37-year-old ...

Only a few years ago, JD Vance was boasting about his immigrant roots. “To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,” Vance wrote in Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 book ...

Defector’s growth committee is hard at work preparing for all-company meetings in August, where we’ll set strategy for Year 6 and beyond. Our biennial reader survey is probably the most important ...

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Last night on Love Island USA, a game show my wife watches while I’m in the room, the remaining male contestants played ...