I don’t give out candy, or anything else, on Halloween. Not for reasons of miserliness or whatever; I simply live in a spooky ...

Japanese RPGs (JRPGs for short) do a lot of things right, but one thing they are not particularly known for is respecting the ...

This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. In early May, on a blue-sky day in Jefferson City, ...

Species around the world are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, which peddles in wares such as pangolin scales, ...

Thousands of Dubliners showed up for the city’s much-anticipated Halloween parade on Thursday evening. They lined the streets ...

I had no reason to go into South Jersey, and so, for a long time, all of those subway stations I passed when walking around Philadelphia were little mythical pockets of alternate existence from which ...

It is not quite right to say that you never know what you’re going to get from a Donald Trump campaign event. You might see ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

The greatest Shohei Ohtani playoff day was his first. That’s not to dismiss his overall postseason contributions—he had an ...

In the late October afternoon, Defector Reads A Book then. Chess men on the cover. A colonnade. The question of brothers, ...

On the first play of their Wednesday night national showcase game in Oklahoma City, the San Antonio Spurs ran a lob play ...

Here is a way to visualize how I feel about the broader state of things most days: Imagine a cooling lake of lava. A thin ...