Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Gretchen Whitmer, the ...

While all of the reasons to be morally opposed to the Paris Saint-Germain sportswashing project still apply, it must be said ...

Like all worthwhile endeavours, the (semi)annual celebration of independent record store culture called Record Store Day ...

Wow, I can’t believe this. After having been separated for more than a year, the Reacher Creatures have once again come back ...

Ja Morant is no longer pretending to shoot a gun after hitting big shots. Potentially bad news for Adam Silver: Ja Morant is ...

Growing up in Florida, I have always maintained that the state as a whole should be thought of as America’s id. Florida is ...

I haven’t been as excited to see a movie as I was to see Drop in possibly years. I saw the trailer a couple of months ago at the beginning of some other movie I don’t remember, and this is how the ...

For somebody who followed Alexander Ovechkin’s chase for as long and closely as I had, I didn’t get much fun out of his ...

Different types of baseball careers have different kinds of shapes. Many, most, don’t have any shape at all; they unfold ...

It is a longstanding workplace value at Defector not to take journalism too seriously. The work, however serious it might be ...

Giving up a walk is more shameful than giving up a hit. Nibbling at the edge of the zone is cowardice; the Seattle Mariners’ ...

It’s Halloween 2006, and I’m standing in the middle of the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines, Iowa. My bangs are side-swept and ...