Cinema tells us that when a batter steps into the box and the catcher proceeds to tell him which pitch is coming, the catcher ...

There was no way we were going to win this seagull. It was the second time I’d put a buck into the claw machine, attempting ...

James Earl Jones, who died this week at 93, was one of the greats. Here are some of his roles we’ve been thinking about since ...

My idle associations with dying—the smell of decay, the proverbial light going out, the coroner’s office, corpses in the ...

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course ...

The continuing assault by university administrators upon elementary school teaching standards advanced another step this week ...

After this year's edition of the U.S. Open, it is worth wondering whether we've hit a dire turning point. The crowd is still ...

If you’re anything like me—a Millennial rapidly (though gracefully!!!) aging out of even the most generous definition of “youth,” who once prided yourself on being a music head but who lost the pulse ...

If you’re a Pal-level subscriber at Defector, you get access to a premium weekday newsletter called The Cipher, which has a ...

On Monday, the Miami-Dade Police Department released body-cam footage of officers detaining Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill ...

The Texas Rangers will be facing the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight, in a kind of World Series rematch, if a World Series ...

Perhaps the most thrilling moment of Jannik Sinner’s maiden U.S. Open title run was the press conference before the ...