Even though you knew about the great rice/wheat cultivation divide, the extent to which you missed rice after one-and-a-half ...

Be amazed all you like by the Los Angeles Dodgers firing out another $182 million for the next five years of Blake Snell’s ...

When Germans woke up on the morning of Nov. 6th, it felt like déjà vu: Once again the country had been on the edge of its ...

Speaking from experience, buying into symbolism will drive you mad. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been absolutely certain that a certain gesture definitively means a person is now my enemy. My ...

Maybe this is my fault. For years, I’ve been begging Kendrick Lamar to lighten up a little. To stop with the hip-hop savior ...

There was no big Defector-style Professional Women’s Hockey League season preview last year, because I was (shameless plug) a little busy reporting this feature on the league’s formation. But it’s ...

Wolverhampton Wanderers are a soccer club in sort of the same way that Silvio Dante’s Bada Bing was an adult entertainment ...

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

This is the time of year when the best, biggest, and most ambitious movies come out. Not Oscar season, but rather that ...

Welcome to Perfectly Fine Dinner Party Club, a cooking and hosting column from Libby Watson, who likes to throw dinner ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic ...

The NWSL Championship could not have worked out better for the league. The best team in the league, the Orlando Pride, beat ...