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...
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Stupid And Contagious | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage...
Run, Hide, Fight, Die | Defector
Hey, teachers going back to work and parents of kids going to class for another school year, the FBI's got...
Lost In The Olympics | Defector
In the most basic sense, it is tough to say that "watching sports" is something that a person can be...
The Defector Summer Interns Say Farewell
Defector has unfortunately reached the end of its time with our amazing interns, Heather Chen and Owen Lewis. Here they...
Defector At The Theater: A Revamped ‘Cats’ Is Better Than Ever
If you're a Pal-level subscriber at Defector, you get access to a premium weekday newsletter called The Cipher, which has...
Wings Hauser, American Weirdo | Defector
When Entertainment Weekly profiled the actor Wings Hauser in the spring of 1991, he had made nine movies in the...
Embrace Tofu Wings | Defector
If you're a Pal-level subscriber at Defector, you get access to a premium weekday newsletter called The Cipher, which has...
Nikola Met A Bird | Defector
Much has been said about Nikola Jokic's admiration for horses. "I like the smell of them," he once said of...
Another Garden Check! | Defector
It's crazy-hot here, and so humid the air feels like walking through linen curtains. You breathe by slurping. And yet...
Debate Losers | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage...
Arrival Of The Mack | Defector
Hockey—the actual sport, played with sticks and a puck, on ice—is going away for a while. That is, unfortunately, one...
Momentum Or The Moment? | Defector
Is momentum real? Do past outcomes—the outcomes themselves, and not the processes that led to them—influence future results? This is...
The Oilers Are Astonishing | Defector
The first seven minutes of Game 6 were notable to me because, finally, both teams in the Stanley Cup Final...
Journalism Is Activism | Defector
We are a few months into The Great Will Lewis Experiment at the Washington Post, and everything there is fucked....
