Last Time Was Lucky | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage...
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It’s Time To Vote | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage...
Sit Down Across The Board With Defector Reads A Book And Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’
Patrick Redford: In the late October afternoon, Defector Reads A Book then. Chess men on the cover. A colonnade. The...
Let’s Remember Our Cars | Defector
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you...
How To Go Deaf | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew's...
Who Owns An Idea? | Defector
Standing in front of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings, I felt my body go all fuzzy. My eyes followed the precise...
Tom-Tom C’est Moi | Defector
The first time I took music lessons, the teacher fell asleep. We were in a strip mall, in one of those...
Let’s Remember Some Dad | Defector
If you see me describing an episode of The Distraction as "a very special episode," I am almost certainly joking....
Pete Rose, All-American | Defector
After Pete Rose's death was announced on Monday night, a lot of clever microphone addicts opened their obligatory thumbnail summaries...
Woof, The Angels | Defector
This is the story White Sox fans have been waiting for all year. That year is almost over, and the...
Boat Guy Has Balls | Defector
McCovey Cove Dave likes attention. You might have noticed this from his shirt that says "McCovey Cove Dave," or his...
Hey, Look! It’s Points! | Defector
It's been two weeks now, and we're convinced: Everyone in the NFL is just playing to get to 20, and...
Bill Belichick, America’s Sweetheart | Defector
In the modern entertainment environment, the space between “killing on stage” and full-saturation overkill is collapsing quickly. This puts upstart...
The Gang’s All Here! | Defector
Somewhere on the seafloor of an oceanic canyon near Vancouver Island in 2022, scientists dropped a bundle of video and...
Skink Outside The Box | Defector
Most skinks look like skinks, by which I mean that most of the 1,500 or so species in the family...
