It’s Time for Maine to Ditch Platner — But Not the Politics That Won Over Voters
Graham Platner during a primary election night event at the YMCA in Blue Hill, Maine, on June 9, 2026. Photo: Graeme...
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Graham Platner’s Exit From Senate Race Leaves Maine Dems “Hobbled” in Scramble for New Nominee
In group chats of progressive activists and political operatives concerned with the state of the Senate race in Maine Wednesday...
Who is Turkey’s Erdoğan? How NATO’s most unpredictable leader keeps reinventing himself
As President Donald Trump heads to Ankara, Turkey, for the upcoming NATO summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is again...
Graham Platner Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem
Alex Scheel speaks at an Armistice Day rally on Veterans Day 2025. Photo: Bryan Richardson/Courtesy of the Scheel campaign When...
Waltz calls out Iranian diplomat at UN following drone strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz scolded Iran during this week's U.N. Security Council meeting, saying Tehran "will...
Russia unleashes nearly 600 missiles and drones on Kyiv in deadliest strike since May
Russia launched one of its heaviest overnight attacks on Kyiv, firing hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at the...
RFK Jr. Claims He’s Investigating Terrorism Now, Too
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking a beat from his busy day job ending the...
Socialist Momentum Grows as Melat Kiros Wins in Denver
Leftists toppled a three-decade incumbent they’d made the face of the Democratic Party’s failures on Tuesday in Denver amid an...
How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades
An undated photo from winter 2023 provided by Breaking The Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded...
Women in the Army Are More Likely to Be Killed by Fellow Soldiers Than Enemy Combatants
Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Roque had been in the Army for just over four years when a man fatally shot her in...
Socialists Are Surging. In Colorado, a 29-Year Incumbent Is Sweating.
Rep. Diana DeGette has had a tough few weeks. The Colorado Democrat is facing her first competitive primary in her...
Anthony Rizzo calls out Jazz Chisholm’s ‘immaturity’ after ejection during Yankees’ Fenway Park sweep
A former New York Yankees teammate of Jazz Chisholm Jr. doesn’t like how the star second baseman conducted himself in...
Red-hot Miami Marlins cannot be stopped, boasting MLB-best 17-5 record in month of June
For the entire month of June, one team has run roughshod over the entirety of Major League Baseball, being nearly...
The Democratic Party Gets Its Populist Takeover
All three congressional candidates that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamadani endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday. The races were...
How USMNT’s loss to Turkey in 2025 helped spur turnaround
A year to the day before it arrived at its World Cup base camp here, the U.S. men’s national team...
