In the final months of 2023, I made one of my most controversial decisions. More than four years had elapsed since I’d last upgraded my phone; the battery life had already begun its slow descent into ...

Saint Louis was looking to complete the biggest win of its season. The Billikens men’s basketball team has been playing brilliant defense since starting Atlantic 10 conference play, and their 78-69 ...

Elaine Powers first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school biology. Powers often told her students about rabbits, which excrete a ...

There’s so much to despise about high school sports in 2025. Crass commercialization, win-at-all-cost woefulness, etc.  Counterpoint: Paul VI vs. Gonzaga! On Tuesday night I attended this matchup of ...

Relative velocity’s a hell of a thing. It’s impossible to conceptualize how fast 300 kilometers per hour is until you’re on a train that fast. Even then, it’s primarily visual: Until you look at the ...

Jen Golbeck is a writer, scientist, and professor at the University of Maryland. Her Substack, The MAGAReport, tracks what’s ...

An earlier blog called blockbuster trades “rare in the WNBA.” In fact, they happen twice a week now. We regret the error.

On a cold and cloudy morning in Ukraine’s second city, our tour guide Kirill met us at our hotel. Twenty-seven, with dark, ...

Coming into last Sunday’s match against Arsenal in the Women’s Super League, the Chelsea starting lineup was missing some of ...

There is a website that might tell you how you’re going to die. It’s constantly updated with various potential causes of your ...

I will admit, there was a point at the start of New York magazine’s profile of the jubilant young Trumper right when I ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...