1+ hour, 34+ min ago (70+ words) Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid. Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid. You did it! Solved in . Challenge your friends to today's puzzle! More Games From Slate Slate Pears Game 100: Nov. 24, 2025 Which Girl's Name Can Mean a Sudden Charge Against the Enemy? Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 24, 2025 Slate Crossword: Abbr. Absent From Most Modern Phones (Four Letters)...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (1720+ words) A Jacobean-era man and woman standing romantically in a forest. The curiosity that drove the Irish novelist Maggie O'Farrell to write her bestselling 2020 novel Hamnet sprang from the scarcity of documentation about the book's title character, Hamnet Shakespeare. Born in 1585 to William and Anne Shakespeare, the twin brother to a girl named Judith, Hamnet died of unknown causes in 1596, the only one of the Shakespeares' three children not to reach adulthood. But for the records of his christening and his burial in the Stratford-upon-Avon parish registers, Hamnet's 11 years on earth remain a tantalizing blank, one of those countless human existences that are legible to us now only in the form of a bookended pair of dates. And yet, because Hamnet happened to have a father who spent his life creating characters that four centuries on remain as legible and as…...

7+ hour, 55+ min ago (178+ words) On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel discusses the abysmal football on display from both the New York Jets and Giants. Read Paul Tenorio's piece for the Athletic on the Apple and MLS deal. Pre-order Paul's new book, The Messi Effect: How the Global Legend Changed the Future of American Soccer Read more about Massachusetts state senator John Keenan's new bill on sports betting. Read about the night Connor Bedard, Macklin Celebrini both scored hat tricks A weekly sports discussion show from Slate: Hang Up and Listen. Alex Kirshner is a contributing writer for Slate. He co-hosts the Split Zone Duo podcast and lives in Los Angeles. Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for the Ringer and hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs. He is the co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has…...

9+ hour, 20+ min ago (889+ words) Tish James and James Comey looking jubilant, while Trump is in the middle, seemingly annoyed. This fight is not over. Currie's reading of the relevant law is compelling but contested; the Trump administration may well appeal. And her decision leaves open the possibility that a validly appointed U.S. attorney could indict Comey and James in the future. As a practical matter, though, a redo seems quite unlikely. And that reality underscores the core message of the ruling: The president cannot so easily anoint corrupted prosecutors to wield their vast authority against perceived foes of the regime. The Halligan affair began for a simple reason. Trump wanted indictments against Comey and James, and no reasonable prosecutor would bring them. His Justice Department sought to bring the charges in the Eastern District of Virginia, which is where their alleged wrongdoing would have occurred....

15+ hour, 23+ min ago (664+ words) The past weekend flashed a neon sign, more garishly beaming than ever, that U.S. foreign policy is in shambles, a three-ring circus of tripping clowns and miscued jugglers. The Trump administration's 28-point Russia'Ukraine "peace" plan, which Axios published on Thursday, set the stage for this chaos. First, Trump embraced it, giving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky till Thanksgiving to accept its terms or continue to "fight his little heart out." And so, the war will rage on, and America's role as leader of the free world'or as a general guarantor of security worth taking at all seriously'will take another hit, perhaps the most severe of Trump's presidency, which is saying a lot. Even Neville Chamberlain would likely have turned away from this sort of deal. Certainly he would have stopped short of declaring it "peace in our time." How did this come…...

18+ hour ago (1185+ words) Lawmakers want to close a so-called hemp loophole. They might blow up a massive industry in the process. The federal shutdown may be over, but its fallout certainly isn't. On top of the ongoing disruptions to food stamps and the safety net, the continuing resolution that reopened the government has come under much scrutiny, thanks in no small part to an outrageous legislative provision that Congress will be asked to repeal soon: a little last-minute poison pill known broadly as the intoxicating-hemp ban. (Indeed, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has already drawn up a bill to overturn said ban altogether.) At Mitch McConnell's urging, the government resolution included a measure forbidding the sale of any hemp-derived commodities that contain more than 0.4 grams of THC, the psychoactive chemical compound that gets you high. This was intended expressly as a means of closing…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (55+ words) Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Nov. 25, 2025. More Games From Slate Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 25, 2025 Slate Pears Game 100: Nov. 24, 2025 Which Girl's Name Can Mean a Sudden Charge Against the Enemy? Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 24, 2025 We need to talk about your adblocker...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago (93+ words) The Trump administration's proposed plan is fairly vague'but it would result in a clear victor. The Trump administration has announced a 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine that involves ceding territory, giving up on joining NATO and reducing its military'in essence an extremely, even suspiciously, friendly deal for Russia and Russian demands. How does Ukraine play this without losing a powerful ally or the war? Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories correspondent. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther....

3+ hour, 45+ min ago (256+ words) In the 1960s, the Metropolitan Community Church was one of the first gay-positive churches. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge. When the Metropolitan Community Church was founded in the late sixties, it was one of the first gay positive churches in America. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge for people who were sick and those who were mourning them. In this episode, Anna talks to researcher Lynne Gerber, about finding boxes of cassettes under the church floor in an MCC church in San Francisco, and how those recordings of sermons and songs became a podcast about finding community and comfort during a crisis. Lynne Gerber is the host of the 10-episode series When We All Get to Heaven. And if you're new to the show, welcome. We're so glad you're here. Find us and follow us on Instagram and…...

20+ hour, 25+ min ago (144+ words) Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years'so we're diving into the Dear Prudence archives to share classic letters with our readers.Submit your own questions to Prudie here. My fianc's family has an aggravating annual tradition. His parents included their new son-in-law when their daughter got married. And since this is the first holiday since my fianc and I got engaged, I know they're planning to include me. From: Picture This! (Nov. 19, 2009). From: He's Not Doll. (Sept. 24, 2009). From: Leave the Kids at Home. (July 15, 2013). I just found out that my ex-boyfriend is running for state legislature. I have potentially damaging information about him that he told me himself while we were dating and was not ashamed for others to know. I believe voters need to hear....