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<div>Jen Golbeck is a writer, scientist, and professor at the University of Maryland. Her Substack, The <a href="http://magareport.news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://magareport.news&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1738242090561000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1v7CItRYSjo8F2e4vcdTQy">MAGAReport</a>, tracks what&#8217;s happening on far-right pro-Trump social media. She splits her time between Washington, D.C. and Key West.</div>
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Jen Golbeck

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Kharkiv. ( Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Arts And Culture

What’s Wrong With War Tourism?

<p>Heather Chen is a former Defector intern and the managing editor at the <em>Columbia Daily Spectator</em>. She loves hockey, photography, and the good ol’ state of Michigan.</p>


Heather Wei-Xi Chen

DETROIT, MI - SEPTEMBER 14: A worker cleans a RAM truck at the 2022 North American International Auto Show on September 14, 2022 in Detroit, Michigan.The NAIAS opens to the public on September 17 and features the latest state of the art electric vehicles, vehicle rides, the world’s first battery-powered Monster Truck, an Air Mobility Experience featuring flight demonstrations of jet suits, hoverboards, and vertical take-off and landing aircraft, a Dinosaur Encounter featuring 80 life-like and life-size dinosaurs, and the world’s largest rubber duck. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

The Detroit Auto Show Used To Be The Future

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Chris Thompson

Two tennis guys get horny looking at Zendaya.

Is My Most Loathed Enemy A Song From The Score Of ‘Challengers’? Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah-Yeah-Yeah Yeah Yeah-Yeah-Yeah

Trump supporters crowd the parade route, with trash everywhere.

Politics

Painting The Town Red

Soraya Roberts

An image of a carriage approaching a moonlit castle, from Nosferatu

When Did The Moving Image Stop Moving?

Israel Daramola

David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time

Kelsey McKinney

I Believe In Ethel Cain

<p>Megan Greenwell is the author of <em>Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream</em>, which will be published in June 2025 and is <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bad-company-megan-greenwell?variant=43151012757538">available for preorder now</a>.</p>


Megan Greenwell

photo of a corner of the Clevelant Museum of Art

The Wonder Of The Regional Art Museum

Alex Sujong Laughlin

Ray Ratto


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Sabrina Imbler

Kathryn Xu

‘The Artist’s Way’ Week 1: Our Hands Hurt

I Demand The National Agricultural Library Publish This Book Right Now

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


Nicholas Russell

‘Nosferatu’ Keeps You Waiting And Waiting

Defector Staff

circa 1897: Portrait of actor John Martin Harvey (1867 - 1944) reading to two children on a postcard.

Year In Review

The Best Things We Read In 2024

John Saward

Clockwise from top: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes.

How Can A Life Be Wonderful?

The Narrative Is All That Matters

Rachelle Hampton

Justin Ellis

chad michael murray and two other male revue dancers are shirtless in suspenders in front of a green fundraising chart

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘The Merry Gentlemen’

Maitreyi Anantharaman

Giri Nathan

Patrick Redford

David Roth

Firefighters wash up after fighting the O'Brien Creek fire. Lolo national Forest, Montana, August 21, 1940.

Defector Reads A Book

Racing With Mortality In Norman Maclean’s ‘Young Men And Fire’

An old timey drive-in, with an old-timey pickup truck in front of it. The front of the drive in says "DRIVE-IN THEATRE. SIT IN YOUR CAR. SEE AND HEAR TALKING PICTURES. ON THE WORLD'S LARGEST SCREEN. Californa's First." There's also a neon entrance sign. The photo is black and white. The Year in Review Defector graphic is at the bottom.

The Best Things We Saw In 2024

‘Babygirl’ Wants To Know Your Fantasy

<p>Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


Drew Magary

A bunch of Cardinals sit in their pointy white hats in a screengrab from Edward Berger's 2024 film Conclave.

The Ending Of ‘Conclave’ Was Cheap And Stupid

Alan Kluegel

Denzel Washington looking incredibly sinister and cool in Gladiator II.

II Decadent II Decrepit: The Politics Of ‘Gladiator II’

Lauren Theisen

Still from Carmelita Tropicana. A person in sunglasses and a person in leather holding a neon plunger interrogate a man tied to a chair.

‘Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!’ Seizes The Full Potential Of The Theater

<p>Annie Howard is a journalist and historian based in Chicago. She is currently at work on her debut manuscript, <em>The City Made Me Trans</em><i>.</i></p>


Annie Howard

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Works Hard To Hope

An artistic interpretation of artificial intelligence, showing a stack of books surrounding a laptop with a pixelated face on it

The Machines

There’s No Shortcut To Publishing A Book

Food

I Loved How Much Ugly Baby Hated Me

Luis Paez-Pumar

Lindsay Lohan sitting on a chair opening a book that reads "Construction Proposal Lifestyle Complex"