The National Football League is back, in case you haven’t already been lectured, hectored, and badgered into aural submission ...

The science fiction author William Gibson’s pithy observation that “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly ...

Who knew Ben Shelton could do all that? Certainly not the Defector writer who was slandering him in the early stages of the ...

Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set ...

It is difficult, and yet important, to practice holding multiple truths at once, such as: No animal is inherently bad, and ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season (except when ...

Only If You Get Caught is back for Season 2. If you listened to the first season, welcome back; if you didn’t, you have six ...

At my university, you had to take an introductory fiction writing workshop before you were eligible to apply for the more ...

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

Think of the internet as an ocean vast enough to contain a near-infinite constellation of distinct watery biomes, each populated by creatures that have evolved to suit the one in which they live—a ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

What’s this we have here? Why, it’s the first-ever episode of Defector’s brand-new NFL podcast, All Ball! Every week, the team of myself and elite indie blogger Arif Hasan break down every NFL matchup ...