Five weeks is a long time to spend doing something. After five weeks, your excitement has probably worn off and you’ve ...

When our brilliant, inquisitive colleague Kelsey McKinney last participated in the Defector staff author interview series, ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ spectacular and mostly uncontested offseason binge buy has provided for conspiracy theorists just as surely as it has for Dodgers fans. The benefit to the latter, who have ...

In one Super Bowl commercial, an octogenarian actor waxes lacrimal about freedom, a privilege bought for you with the blood ...

It is time to become acquainted with that face up there. It belongs to Patrick Dumont, son-in-law of Miriam Adelson and newly ...

Every month, it seems, a new paper comes out declaring that microplastics have invaded another realm of our body: They’re in ...

There are reasons to envy people who work in conservative media and reasons to pity them, but there’s an element of ...

Ireland came out strong and finished stronger while defeating Scotland, 32-18, in a Six Nations rugby tilt Sunday evening in ...

The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions once again. After whomping the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22, the Eagles join the ranks of teams with multiple title wins, a list that had felt incomplete ...

Fox Sports unveiled a new graphics package, as companies tend to do for the Super Bowl, and I pretty much liked it. The main ...

Kendrick Lamar capped off the greatest year a rapper has had in quite some time with a Super Bowl halftime show designed ...