Once again, it is time for the Defector staff to go into seclusion for our annual company meetings and fall frolic. This year ...

What would you borrow? What would you lend? I think I’ll borrow tools. Maybe something big and unwieldy, but only if there is an established social protocol for making the inconvenience up to the ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Dave McKenna, Luis Paez-Pumar, David Roth, and Lauren Theisen explore Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 ...

First there was a dolphin, a brief glimpse of its sleek, slate-gray trunk arcing across the surface, and then, before you ...

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 ...

Once again, it is time for the Defector staff to go into seclusion for our annual company meetings and fall frolic. This year ...

No $2 billion price tags or beloved local bars uprooted by eminent domain. But does that make it, you know, good?

I will admit that it has shaken me to my very core, or at least to the point where I have not been able to get through a post ...

Promotion from the Championship into the Premier League is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is the greatest ...

There’s no percentage in being right about a baseball team you care about. It’s nice to feel smart, I guess, but “feeling ...

Once again it is time for the Defector staff to go into seclusion for our annual company meetings and fall frolic. This year ...

An ugly overtime. A straight-up bad Game 5. A gripping Finals series. The greatest, noisiest WNBA season in memory. And for ...