Slate Mini Crossword for Sept. 13, 2025 Nate Cardin
Take a quick break with our daily 5×5 grid.
Young Conservative Men and Women Have Very Different Ideas of Success. I Think I Know What’s Going On. Jill Filipovic
The lesson is decidedly not that young women don’t care about children or family.
Who Showed Up to Lead in a Dark, Tense Week? Jim Newell
After a national shock to the system, two people stepped up.
The Supreme Court’s Racial Profiling Decision Is Even More Racist We Thought.
Noem v Vasquez Perdomo has already opened a pandora’s box of racist tactics for ICE
The Killing of Charlie Kirk Reveals Why Gun Violence is a Free Speech Issue.
The First Amendment has a Second Amendment problem.
Will ICE Raids Freeze Foreign Investment? Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers
ICE raided a new Hyundai plant in Georgia detaining hundreds of workers from South Korea.
The Odd Alchemy That Sends a Brand-New Song to the Top of the Charts Chris Molanphy
For decades, No. 1 debuts were unheard of in America. Then the record labels and digital music hacked the Hot 100.
How a Murder in Charlotte Shaped Reactions to Charlie Kirk’s Killing Henry Grabar
The ways the two deaths were shown—and withheld—reveals the uneasy role of violent video in our digital lives.
A New Movie Takes On the Man Who Exposed Some of the Biggest Cover-Ups in U.S. History Sam Adams
The new documentary from the Oscar-winning director of CitizenFour follows perhaps our most legendary—and controversial—journalist.
The Bullets That Killed Charlie Kirk Were Not Engraved With “Trans Ideology.” But That Won’t Stop the Campaign to Brand Trans People as Violent Monsters. Valorie Van-Dieman
Now is the time to resist this dangerous strategy, before it’s too late.