Having leisurely picked it up one day without expecting to be taken in, Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air arrested me from the first page. “Among my five teammates who reached the top [of Mount Everest], ...

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from ...

If one wanted to understand the alarming state of international politics in the Western Hemisphere through a single story, it’d be hard to beat Jose Antonio Kast visiting CECOT this past January. Kast ...

I know how the faint praise goes, but a lot of the important things Angel Reese does actually do show up in the box score.

Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it’s also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a ...

Names, the heroine of Cynthia Buchanan’s 1972 debut novel, Maiden, thinks to herself, “are so vital.” And with a name like ...

You might have heard by now of the scientist in Russia, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, who died on Oct. 2 of an unknown illness. Shipilova worked in a lab at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute ...

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

Not a lot of owners would have let Mike Elias do what he has done with the Baltimore Orioles. This was true in a negative, ...

The Tampa Bay Rays–New York Yankees ALDS matchup revealed some intriguing eccentricities of each team’s respective ballpark. For example, the Tropicana Field ground rules contain a section entitled ...

Marc Edelman has spent much of the last two decades fighting to help college athletes get fairly compensated for their labor. A lawyer who is currently a tenured professor at Baruch College, Edelman ...

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