Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about ...

The Platonic ideal of a chameleon, at least for those of us with televisions, is a small, somewhat nervous-looking reptile ...

Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This ...

Musab Al-Debs has lost 75 percent of his body weight. The 14-year-old reportedly weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) before he ...

It’s tough being a dad. It’s even tougher raising a young woman in a horrifying patriarchal society that is constantly ...

John Wall announced his retirement from professional basketball on Tuesday, according to a tweet by ESPN’s Shams Charania. You could be forgiven for finding that announcement somewhat redundant: Wall, ...

When Ray Ratto told you that you could get “hard mathematical reasons” for the Milwaukee Brewers’ inexplicable win streak ...

Michael “Curious Mike” Porter Jr. has made another podcast appearance. The former Denver Nugget and prolific podcaster was traded to the Brooklyn Nets a few months ago, simultaneously putting him in a ...

There’s a way this Washington Mystics season could have been kind of tedious. In the offseason, and again at the August trade deadline, the rebuilding team swapped its veterans for a collection of ...

Some people are fans of the Denver Broncos. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Denver Broncos. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews ...

On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE ...

Nostalgia is the only reason why there’s a new Planet Hollywood in Times Square. But my nostalgia is different from everybody ...