It is strange how normal it has been to work with Dan McQuade during the illness that he wrote about at Defector a few weeks ...

Um … there we go … uh-oh,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage as he attempted to answer a video call through a combination of movements between a wristband and a pair of glasses. “Well, I … let’s ...

When I read that Robert Redford died on Tuesday, I did a double take. I didn’t realize he was 89, but even if he was, he had that air of immortality that attaches to all true movie stars. The double ...

Through five matches of the 2025-26 season—four in the Premier League, plus Wednesday’s Champions League opener against Atlético Madrid—Liverpool has gotten out to and subsequently blown three 2-0 ...

Training camps are opening across the NHL, which means it’s time to motivate the fellas. Never mind that pro athletes have ...

It’s become clear that Charlie Kirk is worth more to Trumpworld dead than he ever was alive. His fatal shooting last week in ...

President Donald Trump is in the United Kingdom, meeting with the British royal family. Here we see him with the King and ...

Anyone with a paltry two arms is probably familiar with handedness, our predisposition to use either the left or right hand for particular tasks. (No ambidexterity erasure intended; you are valid!) ...

Baseball tends to present the first men to crack the sport’s shameful racial barrier through a gauzy lens, their caps topped with a halo. There is the sanctified Jackie Robinson, and his Brooklyn ...

The virgins on my screen are in their 20s and 30s. The pilot opens with seven women and eight men. Two are Texans, one is a late-blooming comedian, two went to Brigham Young University, and two wear ...

On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online ...

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