Slate Mini Crossword for Jan. 11, 2025 Quiara Vasquez
Take a quick break with our daily 5×5 grid.
If You Were in L.A., How Would You Feel About Your Elected Officials Right Now? Jim Newell
Fair or not, you can’t really blame anyone for this reaction.
Buy Nothing Groups Seem to Offer Everything—Except a Chance to Get to Know Your Neighbors Maggie Lange
The local online parent group, where I’d hoped to find new friends, was basically a random yard sale.
SCOTUS Doesn’t Get TikTok, But Is Probably Going to Ban It Anyway Dahlia Lithwick
For the legally curious, Friday was a day.
Scaachi Koul on Terrible Emails, Moo Deng, and Orlando Bloom Fanfiction Candice Lim and Scaachi Koul
How Slate culture writer Scaachi Koul decides who to fight and ignore online, and what she misses about the heydays of BuzzFeed.
It’s One of the Year’s Best Movies. Why Is It Getting Shut Out of All of the Awards? Sam Adams
Secrets & Lies was nominated for five Oscars. Why is the team’s new movie getting blanked?
Why the Supreme Court Is Poised to Let the TikTok Ban Stand Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Should the Supreme Court have rushed the TikTok case?
Netflix’s New No. 1 Show Takes On the Darkest Chapter in Mormon History—and Softens It Rebecca Onion
American Primeval is dramatic, bloody, and relentless.
I Found Out My Stepdaughter Is Running an OnlyFans. I Want to Show Her My Approval. Jamilah Lemieux
I’m afraid she must be feeling very lonely.
Why Donald Trump’s Criminal Sentence Matters Andrea Bernstein
In fewer than 40 minutes, it was over.