Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On Wednesday, President ...

As a general rule, you do not want to know what sportswriters are eating. Assume that it’s happening at strange times and in ...

When Paul Maurice was hired out of retirement to heal the Florida Panthers’ multitude of competitive leprosies, he was called ...

It can be hard to tell when it is safe to officially declare a bad baseball team a historically bad one. You usually kind of ...

On April 7, the New Yorker and Time ran nearly identical stories that might be better described as press releases for the ...

Impossible brand cycle: 30 years between the 1966 debut of the original CBS television series created by Bruce Geller to the ...

There are two main reasons for Philadelphia Eagles fans to hate Jeffrey Lurie: He’s a billionaire, and he owns the Eagles.

The Pittsburgh Pirates scored more than four runs in a baseball game for the first time in a month, but because they are the ...

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like ...

Celebrities are human beings, sure, but they don’t move through life like the rest of us do. They will feel sadness and pain ...

Wednesday night’s 9-5 loss to the Phillies was their fourth in a row. Their .163 winning percentage is the worst in baseball.

Nobody takes a hint less well than Rich Hill, and conversely nobody proves prevailing wisdom wrong more often than Rich Hill.