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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt festival in 2016.

Politics

The Limits Of The Billionaire Imagination Are Everyone’s Problem

Lauren Theisen

Arts And Culture

‘How To Defend Yourself’ Knows That You Will Fail To Solve Rape Culture

A Mark Rothko painting, featuring his signature planes of color, on display in Munich's Kunsthalle in 2008.

Bob Nightengale Is Capturing The World Baseball Classic As Only He Can

David Spade on the set of his 2019 late-night series on Comedy Central.

It’s Hollywood’s Biggest Night And All The Stars Are Out, With Vince Mancini

Soraya Roberts

AI Art Only Looks Like Art If You Don’t Care

Israel Daramola

No, That Movie Was Not All A Dream

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Sophie Lewis

Rihanna Rubbed Her Belly And Broke A Million Brains

NEW ORLEANS - JULY 03: Musician David Jude Jolicoeur better known as Trugoy of De La Soul performs at the 2010 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome on July 3, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

We Are All Indebted To Trugoy The Dove Of De La Soul

Selling Out Still Sucks

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

The Abrupt And Anonymous End Of StripperWeb

Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nod Is A Nomination For The Past

Barry Petchesky

DHI QAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 15: British Museum and Iraqi archaeologists carry out excavations in the ancient city of Girsu, the capital of the Kingdom of Lagash in Dhi Qar, Iraq on November 15, 2021. (Photo by Arshad Mohammed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Science

I Desperately Want To Have A Beer At This Ancient Sumerian Bar

Journalismism

Who Is The Celebrity Documentary For?

Photo of Tom Verlaine performing with Television during the 1970s.

Tom Verlaine, Out And Back


<p>Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.</p>


Dan McQuade

A look at a Virgil Abloh exhibit with the gift shop in the background

When Exiting Through The Gift Shop Is The Best Part Of The Exhibit


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Sabrina Imbler

A woman encourages her child to look at the mummy of young boy during a preview of the 'Ancient lives, new discoveries' exhibition at the British Museum in Central London on May 20, 2014.

How To Respect A Mummy

Dave McKenna

And This Byrd Can Sing: David Crosby, 1941-2023

Chefector

I’ll Have What No One Is Having

Felix Kent

A woman sits on the floor of her hotel room in her underwear, leaning against the bed and with a magnum of champagne turned up to her mouth. Her clothes are strewn about the bed and floor of the room. (Photo by Graphic House/Getty Images)

How To Drink Alone, The Madison Avenue Way

Defector Staff

Our Predictions For 2023

BAY OF BISCAY, SPAIN: Tanker under dark clouds in The Bay of Biscay north of Santander in the Atlantic Ocean, Spain

Goodbye To Dark Sky, The Only Good Weather App

Kelsey McKinney

Will Ticketmaster’s Death Knell Finally Toll?


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Diana Moskovitz

A menorah on a "happy Chanukah" plate. In front of it are dreidels and CRYPTO GELT: Chanukah Coins for the new age.

Hanukkah Doesn’t Need A Hip Rebrand

A baby, blonde hair, pretty cute, but not like incredibly cute, sititng on a chair with a tan blanket draped over it. the baby is wearing a leather jacket. there's a bunch of money in front of him. it all kinda looks real except for one $100 bill which looks so fake so pretend that bill looks real too

It’s Not Nepotism; It’s Wealth.


<p><a href="https://twitter.com/petesegall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pete Segall</a> lives in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in <em>The Bennington Review</em>, <em>Conjunctions</em>, <em>The Drift</em>, and elsewhere.</p>


Pete Segall

The eponymous hospital in Lars Von Trier's supernatural soap "Kingdom"