Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about ...

Rory Dames—the women’s soccer coach currently banned for life from the NWSL, and who has been accused of abuse by more than a ...

This week on the show, Harry and I hung out with the hosts of the State of the League podcast for an hour of classic ...

There is a cottage industry in publishing dedicated to understanding Donald Trump and his followers. Since his election in 2016, a spate of books have attempted to contextualize, deconstruct, and ...

Well, Pope Leo gave it a hell of a go, we’ll give him that. The former Father Bob, or something, kept the Chicago White Sox ...

Steve Belichick has resigned from his job as defensive coordinator at UNC following an investigation that found “certain ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. The last few ...

The Moon got whacked. The Moon gets whacked a lot, honestly. You can just look at its beaten, cratered surface to see that.

This week, five sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLS) and their associated players’ unions sent letters to gambling regulators in 35 states requesting that something be done to curtail the ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season Got something ...

The NWSL received eight complaints about either sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, or retaliation during the first half of ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...