Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. On the last day of vamping about ...

We open today’s reading with Susie Dent’s Word Of The Day. That word is “recrudescence,” and it means “the return of ...

A frugal baker can also be an adventurous baker, in the sense that leftover ingredients from one recipe can be used as an ...

Some college students plunge into parties, hookups and dates without hesitation, while some of us linger on the diving board, paralyzed by such questions as Sex: how? What is attraction anyway? And ...

I went for a run on Election Day. The streets near my neighborhood, normally clogged with cars dropping off children at an elementary school down the road, were mostly empty. Public schools were ...

It doesn’t appear to have been close. Georgia flipped for Trump. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, too. The Blue Wall crumbled like Jericho’s. Just about everywhere voted redder than in 2020. Young people ...

No one knows anything. Everyone claiming to know something is lying. The odds are 50-50, always, even if they say the odds ...

Imagine you are running the New York City Marathon, trying like hell to hold onto the group setting a sub–three hour pace.

Joe Few, son of Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few, has fond memories of hanging out courtside as a kid and asking his dad to put the walk-ons into the game. “Don’t ever do that again,” he ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

We want to get this out of the way now, so that we won’t have to revisit it when everyone else weighs in with their turgid and superficial analyses of what is wrong with the new NBA season. Put simply ...

Just days before the presidential election, the death of a gray squirrel named Peanut has become a somewhat inexplicable ...