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Can national Democrats harness the energy behind the democratic socialist movement without getting pulled into the politics that cost them in 2024?

The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority's Second Amendment jurisprudence.

In the late 1990s, John Durnell began using the weedkiller Roundup to help tend to the community spaces in his neighborhood in St. Louis.

Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 25, 2026.

This week's Executive Dysfunction.

The president took a win-win-win situation and found a way for everyone to lose.

Iran's got the strait and, if not all the time in the world, at least no midterms breathing down their necks.

Here's what you need to know about the primaries in New York, Maryland, and elsewhere.

The pattern underscores one of the most prominent, if undersung, media "biases."

We are left with a court that is not only unaccountable, but utterly unmoored from internal restraints on its own power.