26-Across: Sharp objects mentioned in the famous Glengarry Glen Ross monologue (11 letters) slate.trib.al/9lfGYeE
Slate Crossword: Hot, Like a Car (Six Letters)
Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Nov. 11, 2025.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
26-Across: Sharp objects mentioned in the famous Glengarry Glen Ross monologue (11 letters) slate.trib.al/9lfGYeE
What Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman calls “the double tax” may apply to women of color but it should worry us all. slate.trib.al/e6Bw642
Money Talks: Why Women of Color Pay More
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman joins Elizabeth Spiers to discuss her new book The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman calls “the double tax” may apply to women of color but it should worry us all. slate.trib.al/e6Bw642
Dear Prudie: We both agree that it would be nice if I could do this myself. slate.trib.al/7cZdQyN
Help! I Put Off Learning This Very Important Adult Skill. It’s Coming Back to Haunt Me.
I've always relied on others to do it for me.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Dear Prudie: We both agree that it would be nice if I could do this myself. slate.trib.al/7cZdQyN
Can you ace the quiz and beat the average? slate.trib.al/2lzbBKl
In Music Notation, Which Note Is on the Third Line of a Treble Clef?
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Now. 11, 2025.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Play our petite puzzle. It packs a punch! slate.trib.al/GFzA8xk
Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 11, 2025
Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Play our petite puzzle. It packs a punch! slate.trib.al/GFzA8xk
Conservatives have a new argument against birth control. It's about "protecting" men. slate.trib.al/vxJBwok
The New Argument Against Birth Control That Could Appeal Directly to RFK Jr.
For decades, abortion opponents swore that they had created a single-issue movement and had no interest in changing access to birth control.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Conservatives have a new argument against birth control. It's about "protecting" men. slate.trib.al/vxJBwok
Country musician Luke Bell's career was on the rise when he started experiencing extreme psychosis. In this episode of Death, Sex & Money his mother Carol talks about his music, mental illness and loss. slate.trib.al/TTrApBP
Raising a Country Musician Through Swagger and Psychosis
“When I look back, I think there were a lot of signs. I just didn't know how to receive them.”
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November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Country musician Luke Bell's career was on the rise when he started experiencing extreme psychosis. In this episode of Death, Sex & Money his mother Carol talks about his music, mental illness and loss. slate.trib.al/TTrApBP
This week on Hang Up and Listen: The Knicks and the mayoral race, baseball betting indictments, and sports robberies. slate.trib.al/6SQQtgZ
Politics, But Make It Bing Bong
How the Knicks captured New York and its top politicians
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November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This week on Hang Up and Listen: The Knicks and the mayoral race, baseball betting indictments, and sports robberies. slate.trib.al/6SQQtgZ
No one online could escape the chatter about a catastrophic accident from … 1975. There’s a reason. slate.trib.al/orZ5X0I
Why Everyone With a Phone Was Obsessed With a 50-Year-Old Shipwreck This Week
How a Great Lakes shipwreck turning 50 gave rise to the most ridiculous and reverent of memes.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
No one online could escape the chatter about a catastrophic accident from … 1975. There’s a reason. slate.trib.al/orZ5X0I
The sci-fi franchise famous for spine-ripping is now all about … teamwork? slate.trib.al/dgUFka1
One of Our Most Macho Sci-Fi Franchises Just Went “Woke”—and Scored Its Biggest Opening Yet
The killer new Predator movie is … feminist?
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November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The sci-fi franchise famous for spine-ripping is now all about … teamwork? slate.trib.al/dgUFka1
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a tale of bad fathers. slate.trib.al/iPI1yyq
Netflix’s Frankenstein Departs From the Book in a Major Way
The various adaptations of Mary Shelley’s book take disparate views of Victor Frankenstein.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a tale of bad fathers. slate.trib.al/iPI1yyq
After she held up a dummy of Donald Trump’s severed head, @kathygriffin.bsky.social became a Hollywood pariah. The way she sees it, she was right all along—and not just about the president. slate.trib.al/1epaKlZ
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
After she held up a dummy of Donald Trump’s severed head, @kathygriffin.bsky.social became a Hollywood pariah. The way she sees it, she was right all along—and not just about the president. slate.trib.al/1epaKlZ
We've been hearing since Liberation Day that these tariffs are a tax grab. slate.trib.al/PjdgwKb
How the Supreme Court Exposed the Most Obvious Hidden Truth About Trump’s Tariffs
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Donald Trump's “Liberation Day” tariffs.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We've been hearing since Liberation Day that these tariffs are a tax grab. slate.trib.al/PjdgwKb
They’ve shown no appetite for spending down their political capital to issue an unpopular ruling that could only hurt the Republican Party. slate.trib.al/OQw0x5r
The Real Reason Kim Davis Never Stood a Chance at the Supreme Court
There were no noted dissents.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
They’ve shown no appetite for spending down their political capital to issue an unpopular ruling that could only hurt the Republican Party. slate.trib.al/OQw0x5r
My husband doesn’t want him to feel “tempted.” slate.trib.al/F8ycNxI
My Brother-in-Law Just Got Sober. I Want to Support Him, but I Want Wine With My Thanksgiving Turkey More.
He can’t expect the rest of the world to be dry.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My husband doesn’t want him to feel “tempted.” slate.trib.al/F8ycNxI
Dear Care and Feeding: My dilemma is that I am ready for a long-term relationship, and I don’t want to lie. slate.trib.al/QmKd2nS
My First Girlfriend Is Now My Adopted Sister. Yeah, I Know How It Looks.
It's not the best icebreaker.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Dear Care and Feeding: My dilemma is that I am ready for a long-term relationship, and I don’t want to lie. slate.trib.al/QmKd2nS
Can you ace the quiz and beat the average? slate.trib.al/f1YhYlK
What Color Takes Its Name From the French Word for “Chestnut”?
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for Nov. 10, 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Can you ace the quiz and beat the average? slate.trib.al/f1YhYlK
Witty wordplay that won’t take all day. slate.trib.al/l4IWdus
Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 10, 2025
Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Witty wordplay that won’t take all day. slate.trib.al/l4IWdus
There’s a reason you couldn’t watch some of your favorite teams and shows last weekend. slate.trib.al/OX3Wk5N
The Real Reason Why YouTube TV Feels So Empty Right Now
The streaming wars have never been pettier.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
There’s a reason you couldn’t watch some of your favorite teams and shows last weekend. slate.trib.al/OX3Wk5N
She was the first comic casualty of the Trump era. She still has more to say. slate.trib.al/GRcTa99
She’s Been Booted Out of Hollywood and Investigated by the Secret Service. When She Let Me Into Her House, I Could See Why.
"I was kind of ahead of my time," she says. "Pun intended."
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November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
She was the first comic casualty of the Trump era. She still has more to say. slate.trib.al/GRcTa99
“It feels as if parents have been abandoned by the federal government—that we used to be able to count to some degree on the federal government having our back…but now there's nobody there to help us.” slate.trib.al/Ou2bKk1
Is Special Ed Getting Left Behind?
Federal funding and the oversight office are being targeted. Will they ever come back?
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November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“It feels as if parents have been abandoned by the federal government—that we used to be able to count to some degree on the federal government having our back…but now there's nobody there to help us.” slate.trib.al/Ou2bKk1
Don’t sleep with your bedroom doors open! slate.trib.al/fRyxuE7
How to Make Your Home as Safe as Possible
Safety expert Holly Choi joins to give tips for making sure your house is as safe as possible for you and your kids.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Don’t sleep with your bedroom doors open! slate.trib.al/fRyxuE7
Join Slate’s open thread for the week of November 10. slate.trib.al/Uvqzldn
A Celebration of De-Christianized France, in This Week’s Open Thread
Join Slate’s open thread for the week of November 10.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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If you’re a fan of Materialists, Die My Love, or earthy, bittersweet love songs, you might want to know more about John Prine and Iris DeMent’s immortal “In Spite of Ourselves,” and I would be happy to tell you.
Why a 26-Year-Old Song Is Suddenly Everywhere
Jennifer Lawrence’s Die My Love, Celine Song’s Materialists, and Lena Dunham’s new show all commit to the same old duet, in spite of its quirkiness.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If you’re a fan of Materialists, Die My Love, or earthy, bittersweet love songs, you might want to know more about John Prine and Iris DeMent’s immortal “In Spite of Ourselves,” and I would be happy to tell you.
Dear How to Do It: Careful what you wish for! slate.trib.al/QgZgDBw
I’m Grateful That My Wife Is Trying More In Bed. But I Am Repulsed By How She’s Doing It.
How am I supposed to get off when she says things like, "Come on, bring it on home!"
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November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Dear How to Do It: Careful what you wish for! slate.trib.al/QgZgDBw