Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On the way to Independence Day weekend, the United States Department of Education announced that, ...

With Wimbledon, the Tour de France, and the 2025 British Grand Prix, the long Fourth of July weekend for Americans has ...

Bring in the big fella, manager Ozzie Guillen pantomimed on his way to the mound in Game 1 of the 2005 World Series, because ...

In theory, or, at least, from the perspective of someone who does not gamble on sports, I figured an MLB pitcher has limited ...

It’s been a terrible week,” said Yankees manager Aaron Boone, a short time after announcing starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt ...

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

Bonjour et bienvenue! The 2025 Tour de France begins Saturday in Lille. If you want to about read the rhythms of the sport, ...

In yesterday’s story, How To Watch Cycling, I wrote offhand that the Tour de France was “poker on two wheels.” That poker ...

That Joan Didion line, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” is ubiquitous because like so much of her work, it gets ...

It is probably enough to note that this week’s episode of The Distraction, which was recorded last week, is A Vacation Episode. Regular listeners have encountered these before, and even those readers ...

F1: The Movie is not a good sports movie, but it also doesn’t try very hard to be. Instead, it is a superhero flick dressed ...