If you’re scrambling to finish up your holiday shopping and you’re getting stressed about how much you’ve spent (in this economy!), don’t worry—Slate is here to help. We put our heads together and came up with this list of the best gifts under $25 that we’ve ever received, from pasta monsters to squirrel tables. Oh, there’s a bologna face mask, too.

And ICYMI: Luke Winkie makes an impassioned plea for couples to adopt his indisputably brilliant new Christmas tradition.

An appeals court upheld Trump’s gag order in his federal 2020 election interference case—and now the Supreme Court has a chance to weigh in, if it wants to. Robert Katzberg argues this is a chance for the court to repair its destroyed reputation.

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