conundrums

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Stephen Colbert answer listeners’ conundrums of all kinds: the meaningful, the trivial, and the delightfully absurd.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

That means some interesting conundrums may arise during the race.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

Email your pairing conundrums, etiquette queries and other pressing questions on bottles for the holiday table to [email protected].

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Nauman paid close attention to Duchamp’s penchant for an art of puns and conundrums.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

I was so frightened, and at the mercy of so many conundrums, that inevitably, that summer, someone would have taken me over; one doesn’t, in Harlem, long remain standing on any auction block.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin