Washington, D.C., is an overwhelmingly blue city. And so it hasn’t been surprising to see that the local response to ...

Just in time for the nation’s semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has issued what might be the most bizarre order of his presidency—a high bar to cross. In fact, if we were on the eve of April ...

My mother passed away after a long illness, and left her estate equally to me, my sister, and our two aunts. My mother and I ...

My sister and I have always been really close, and we married two guys we met in college who were best friends. (We didn’t ...

The Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision along partisan lines last week in Exxon v. Cimex, about the U.S. legal system’s ...

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court. Keep up with all of our Supreme Court coverage and analysis by signing up for weekly email roundups. The ...

At Mount Vernon, America’s first ex-president distilled whiskey from rye, corn, and barley, and brandy from apples, peaches, and persimmons. There were many distilleries in Virginia, and his was among ...

This Independence Day, a truly patriotic palate will be soaking in the fireworks of flavor that erupt from an uncorked bottle of Virginian wine. Slate Video Content Jefferson’s love of wine, or what ...

My boyfriend and I made some very ambitious, misguided decisions in the winter. We signed ourselves up to host guests in our small one-bedroom apartment for basically most of the summer. We are now ...

Big, serious, aggressive stands for robust constitutional protection of individual rights, even of accused criminals, are rare commodities.

What’s not apparent from the outside is that I was treated for prostate cancer two years ago and no longer get hard. I still have mind-blowing dry orgasms while soft and concentrate on getting the ...

A small region in Europe is being thrust into the spotlight. Its name reveals something surprising about how countries—and identities—form.