There is a specific and lacerating shame that comes with talking about New York City politics in places where people who do ...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working ...

The base, corrupting, disenchanting influence of money has allegedly been right on the cusp of ruining everything good, noble ...

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 ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Five days and multiple ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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