It’s a safe bet that in a state that’s punched above its weight with nationally respected senators—Democrats George Mitchell and Edmund Muskie, Republicans Margaret Chase Smith, and Bill ...

Immigration agents are using aggressive tactics. Residents of the sanctuary city are trying to resist them. By Julie Bosman I’m the Chicago bureau chief. During a recent run near Lake Michigan, I ...

When National Guard troops from Texas started to arrive in Illinois last week, I drove out to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center on the outskirts of Chicago to get a better look ...

After an impassioned set of arguments Wednesday over the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the question is whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh is willing to completely dismantle a law intended to ensure equal ...

After an impassioned set of arguments Wednesday over the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the question is whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh is willing to completely dismantle a law intended to ensure equal ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh questioned on Wednesday when the “endpoint” should be for race to no longer be considered in congressional redistricting, as the high court heard arguments in a case that could ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that will begin with a lightning round of commentary on news stories we didn’t otherwise have big thoughts about: The Gaza ...

A medical office building in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has hit the market for the first time in more than three decades.

Plus: McClain Delaney speaks about Medicaid cuts, nursing shortage during college tour; Rockville man facing gun, drug charges after search ...

The Supreme Court is on the verge of further limiting voting rights, thanks in part to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s unfounded insistence that considering race can only be legal for a certain amount of ...