Slate Mini Crossword for Dec. 6, 2025 Kavin Pawittranon
Take a quick break with our daily 5×5 grid.
Maybe You Should Be Rooting for Donald Trump to Kill Netflix’s Deal to Buy Warner Bros. Andrew Harding
Even though that might mean you-know-who buys the studio instead.
I Went. I Saw. I Hated It. America’s Most Controversial Attraction Is Everything I Thought It Would Be. Luke Winkie
I saw the Wizard of Oz. Oh, god.
The Roberts Majority Has Given Up Pretending To Care About Facts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
It’s Christmas all year round in Samuel Alito’s election jurisprudence
The Best Romance of the Year Is … an Animated Kids’ Movie? Rebecca Onion
Zootopia 2 smuggles the structure and tropes of romance into a Disney movie.
Why the Netflix–Warner Bros. Deal Could Be the Death of Movie Theaters Nitish Pahwa
It’s a megamerger for the streaming age—but not everyone in Hollywood is happy.
It’s the Alt-Right’s GOP Now Mary Harris
The debate in the GOP has devolved to “how far do we take our racism”?
The Supreme Court Is Doing Everything in Its Power to Save Trump in the Midterms Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
The Supreme Court reinstated Texas’ new congressional gerrymander on Thursday by a 6–3 vote.