Following this week’s news of Patrick Stewart’s death, the Defector staff convened to remember some of our favorite ...

During the first quarter of Thursday’s game between the equally winless Pelicans and Kings, Sacramento rookie Darius Acuff Jr ...

There are few joys in sports that can truly exceed a game in which both coaches are in danger of getting fired, and no place ...

Russia, which has been functionally banned from international hockey for more than four years, must be allowed to return to ...

I remember the pit in my stomach as I woke up to the texts telling me that Mahmoud Khalil had been kidnapped. I remember the ...

It is difficult to encapsulate the Milwaukee Brewers’ first World Series victory, because for all the limiters and qualifiers ...

Five games into the Finals, it felt odd that we’d yet to watch the game where one team makes everything. The Atlanta Dream ...

On a hot summer day in August 1972, actor-turned-documentarian William Greaves orchestrated a cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s home. He invited the surviving architects of the Harlem Renaissance and ...

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

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

You Can See Everything is the movie event of the fall. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary has proved to be a potent mixture of zeitgeisty cultural insight and its own ...

Three short weeks after he appeared to be on the cusp of assuming the presidency of Brazil and turbocharging the fascist ...