Graham Platner says he is stepping away from the Maine Senate race, but so far he has only spoken those words out loud. He has not filed the formal paperwork with the Maine Secretary of State that would make a withdrawal official. That small bit of formality matters a great deal for Democrats scrambling to More

The story this week is simple and sharp: Ukraine’s drone forces say they hit a string of Russian oil tankers and fuel facilities, and Moscow answered by slamming the export door shut on diesel. If true, this is not a flashy battlefield breakthrough. It is the kind of slow, painful chokehold that wins wars by More

Representative Susie Lee just tried to have it both ways. She announced she cosponsors the TIPS Act and claimed she wants to make “No Tax on Tips” permanent. But voters in Nevada might remember that she voted against the larger tax package last year that already delivered that very relief — and even called it More

The Wall Street Journal’s video investigation makes a simple, hard-to-ignore point: in southern Lebanon, entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble — and many of those flattened houses belong on paper to U.S. citizens living in Dearborn, Michigan. People overseas tracked their family homes by satellite and watched them vanish. That is not a foreign More

Stephen A. Smith put on a master class in common sense when he called out Will Cain on Fox News over Democrats’ reflexive defense of Graham Platner. The short clip has been replayed across feeds, and even Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report pushed it out to his audience. If you missed it, the exchange More