In 20 yrs, this will all be commonplace.” These words were first penned in 2008 by Chloe Dzubilo. A trans femme, recovered ...

If there is one takeaway from Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, it’s that there is no one takeaway. The democratic socialist and his wide-ranging ...

Few have been spared in the raids. They’ve taken people who came to Southern California from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, ...

In the winter, my television mostly stays off. The winter is when my brain is at its best. I am reading. I am writing. I am maybe watching a couple episodes of a show a week. But this feels crazy to ...

Like many great Brazilian funk albums, pressing play on Halc DJ’s Bruxaria Não É Phonk is a little like fitting a jackhammer ...

It’s the hottest week of the year in New York City, but the Mets have been ice cold. Leaders of the NL East by five-and-a-half games less than two weeks ago, the boys from Queens now trail the ...

Ketel Marte was 23 years old when his mother died in July 2017. He’d recently been summoned to the Arizona Diamondbacks from ...

Eagle-eyed trackheads following the Ostrava Golden Spike in Czechia might have noticed American hurdler Chris Robinson, an NCAA champion at Alabama, winning the 400 meters with some unorthodox form.

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

Back in January, an arbitration case between the NFL and the NFL Players’ Association came to a quiet end. The case was initiated by a grievance filed by the NFLPA in 2022, which argued that NFL ...

In the hours before Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, ESPN desk analyst Kendrick Perkins fielded a contrived gambling ...

The Las Vegas Aces are bad. Not “bad by their championship standards”—just kind of bad. Two years ago, they lost six games total. In less than a third of this season, they have lost seven. By the ...