Today Slate is introducing Good Job, an advice column about the problems big and small we face in the modern workplace. Written by pioneering online journalist Doree Shafrir, who co-hosts the podcast ...

Nearly 30 years of back-to-back World Wars, punctuated by the Great Depression, ended Aug. 15, 1945. Our country was ready for a reboot; to move forward, to grow, to put the past behind and move on.

It’s the weekend home of architect Gil Schafer, known for his “contemporary-classical” style, in Amenia, a Hudson Valley town, and the first of three homes he’s built for himself. Schafer, who made ...