A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary  —  Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary — but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.

J.D. Vance Is a Dangerous Authoritarian … The GOP Establishment is shocked and appalled that J.D. Vance won the race to the bottom that was the Ohio Republican Senate primary.  A Senate Republican leadership source had previously said “that of all the Ohio Senate candidates …

Farewell to the dumbest Senate primary ever  —  Ohio's Republican primary campaign was uniquely stupid, by almost any standard.  —  Nearly every politician commits an occasional gaffe, and nearly every election features at least one news cycle about something stupid that a candidate did or said.

Roe will not be missed  —  The leaked draft opinion that would overturn the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision remains a mystery in some respects.  But two things are certain.  First, the leak has damaged the court's credibility.  Chief Justice John Roberts is right to initiate a full investigation by the marshal of the court.

Russian troops held me captive at gunpoint for two weeks in Ukraine.  Here's what I learned.  —  On March 4, Breaking Defense correspondent Reuben Johnson was captured by Russian soldiers outside of Kyiv and taken prisoner.  This is the story of what happened next.