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Slate Pears Game 105: Nov. 29, 2025

Today's puzzle has nine pears.

I Had a Sexual Awakening. Now I’m Terrified to Tell People What I’m Into.

I can't just keep doing this by myself. But what will people say?

Help! I Sent My Stepmother a Simple, Boundary-Setting Text. I Was Not Prepared for the Bomb She Dropped in Return.

How did this become World War III?

Our Daughter Hates One of Her Fellow Classmates. My Husband’s Advice for How to “Channel Her Feelings’ Spells Trouble.

This isn't right.

Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 29, 2025

Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.

Video Games Are Feeding Into a Dangerous Way of Thinking. But It’s Not Just Them.

Video games may be turning players into conspiracy theorists, but so is everything else.

Everyone Online Is Going Analog

Kate Lindsay and Carmen Vicente chat about how offline hobbies are being used as acts of digital rebellion.

Is This Just MAGA’s New Deal?

Defining Trumpism to defend against it

I Had to Watch My Son and His Boyfriend Beat Each Other to a Pulp—and I’m Supposed to Think It’s Normal

It doesn't feel normal.

I Didn’t Believe My Daughter When She Said Her Teacher Hated Her. Then I Sat Down With the Wretched Woman.

I really messed up.