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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D.) opened his 2015 book, The Work, with a dramatic telling of the first time he led soldiers in combat in Afghanistan. Moore described the feeling of shells buzzing past his ears, grappling with the thought that he might die that day, and the disciplined calm that came over him as he led his…
The strike by Harvard graduate students that has disrupted teaching and learning on the campus is escalating as it stretches into its third week, with a second United Auto Workers union of Harvard “academic workers” poised to join the walkout.
The Washington Post is celebrating this week after finally ridding itself of Karen Attiah. The paper had been trying to end its professional relationship with Attiah since September of last year, when she was fired for making racially charged comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Doing what comes naturally, the…
The first Pennsylvania Democrat to launch a primary challenge against Sen. John Fetterman is a Gaza-born writer and anti-Israel activist who has penned op-eds defending Hamas and Hezbollah and serves on the advisory board of a boycott Israel group with ties to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Washington Free…
Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who ran as a crusader against Big Pharma during his campaign and falsely accused his Republican opponent of being a lobbyist for the industry, has tapped a former Big Pharma lobbyist to run his Senate transition team, the Washington Free Beacon found.
Thirteen Republican state attorneys general warned the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands of potential U.S. divestment should the two nations go through with implementing sanctions against parts of Israel in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. In a new letter shared exclusively with…
A week after Democrat LaKesha Womack pulled off a stunning upset in North Carolina's red-leaning 14th Congressional District, she's not headed to Washington, D.C.—she's headed to a local courthouse, where she's set to appear Tuesday on felony charges for failing to return a rental car.
In December 1909, the president of the United States traveled to New York City to address a black-tie dinner promoting Christian missionary work. He was there in his official capacity, and not as his country's most prominent Unitarian, a faith as controversial then as John F. Kennedy's Catholicism was half a century…
There's an old story about the four generations of the American Jewish experience: The first generation was a peddler, the second generation was a successful businessman, the third generation was a doctor- or lawyer-style professional, and the fourth generation was an artist or activist, or both. A funnier, more…
In Sinclair Lewis's classic cautionary tale, It Can't Happen Here, Secretary of State Lee Sarason tries to increase his clout by offering golden opportunities and rosy futures. "His office door," we are told, "became the door of ambition." There are no such doors in A.G. Doran's debut, Pale Dread. The State Department…
Man cannot bear too much reality television. Nor can television bear too much reality. This is why almost everything on television is unreal, and why almost everything there has ever been on television is unreal. We don't like to admit it, because we watch so much of it. Television is a space-filler, a time-killer, a…
The Trump administration has ordered Lebanese diplomat Ibrahim Charara to leave the United States over social media posts in which he praised Hezbollah's 1983 suicide bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut as "heroic resistance" against "American military occupation." The posts were first reported by the Washington…
Even before Tuesday's blue tsunami doused Capitol Hill and lapped up on the White House steps, the U.S.-Israel relationship fell into disarray. "We were giving them $4 billion," Donald Trump said Tuesday morning, "but it gets cut off at the end of the year." "Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an…
Over the past 50 years, 917 death row inmates in the United States have received clemency. Nearly 60 percent of those inmates were spared on Thursday when outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) commuted the death sentences of the state's 548 death row inmates, including several notorious serial killers and child…
Michigan governor-elect Jocelyn Benson (D.) tapped a Nation of Islam leader who has pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories, referred to Jews as "the enemy," and promotes Nation of Islam literature that forbids interracial relationships to serve on her gubernatorial transition council.
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's first hire as senator-elect has accused Zionists of "controlling" American politics, echoing an antisemitic trope that suggests Jews control geopolitical affairs.
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses the Foundation to Promote Open Society, the central cog in billionaire liberal donor George Soros's behemoth nonprofit network, of conspiring to execute a Chinese-backed scheme to obstruct data center development in Seattle. According to the complaint reviewed by the…
A senior "AI ethics" adviser at the United Nations is calling on world governments to ban "digital rape" and grant "reproductive rights" to AI systems, arguing that policymakers should focus on "rehabilitating … digital minds" instead of resorting to "enforced sterilization." Soenke Ziesche, who advises member states…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Loud, activist student protests directly adjacent to classroom buildings are once again interfering with teaching and learning at Harvard.
Former Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) has registered as a foreign agent for a shadowy European NGO to lead "fact-finding" missions to the West Bank—part of a seemingly elaborate propaganda campaign against Israel.
The victory in New Mexico's governor's race of former president Joe Biden's interior secretary, Deb Haaland—who famously invoked "indigenous knowledge" to ban oil drilling—presents a major challenge to the state's sizable oil and gas industry that Haaland, a fierce environmentalist, has vowed to dismantle.
A controversial, climate-focused initiative at New York University—that paid the salaries of top officials in Democratic attorney general offices nationwide but quietly shuttered earlier this year—appears to have found a new home about 230 miles north.
A special education teacher at a Montgomery County, Maryland, elementary school urged women to "stop giving birth" to boys because America's "patriarchal hell" means they're all "menace[s] to society," a Washington Free Beacon review found. The teacher, Dana Zentgraf, also called to overthrow the U.S. government.
The midterms happened and it wasn't pretty. Some people came out on top, while others may never recover after enduring a ritualistic humiliation of near-biblical proportions. Here's your definitive guide to the winners and losers of the 2026 election.
Election results from a series of state ballot initiatives on tax issues suggest that the wave of Democratic victories may be more about gas prices and anti-Trump sentiment than any overwhelming voter enthusiasm for “tax the rich” policies.
The most recent mortality figures in Gaza show that the population grew by more than 1 percent last year, faster than in most of the world, and that a major hunger crisis failed to ever materialize. The data—supplied by Hamas's own Ministry of Health—undercut claims by the United Nations and other anti-Israel groups…
California's progressive attorney general, Rob Bonta, quietly reinstated privileged charitable status to Arc of Justice, the serially tax-delinquent "charity" used by Code Pink benefactress Medea Benjamin to dole out millions to far-left activist groups, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers on Tuesday, becoming the most radical candidate elected to the upper chamber in U.S. history. El-Sayed bested Rogers after a tumultuous campaign in which he embraced noxiously antisemitic podcasters, clerics, and donors.
From the river to the sea. Blue tsunami reckoning. Americans won't be getting those $5,000 checks after all. The poll weren't wrong. If anything, they understated the carnage awaiting Republicans on Tuesday.
Maine Democrat Troy Jackson defeated Republican incumbent senator Susan Collins after campaigning as a crusader against corporate interests and "high-priced lobbyists." His victory could create opportunities for his son, who worked as a high-priced corporate lobbyist as Jackson led the Maine Senate.
Minnesota Democrat Peggy Flanagan held off former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya in a closely watched Senate race Tuesday, overcoming questions about her handling of multiple fraud scandals while serving as lieutenant governor in the administration of Governor Tim Walz.
Texas Democrat James Talarico, the 37-year-old state lawmaker who shares his only disclosed checking account with his mother, defeated Republican attorney general Ken Paxton, breaking his party's long losing streak in the Lone Star State.
Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, a former anti-meat and anti-oil crusader who went great lengths to distance himself from his activist past, successfully unseated the Republican incumbent, Gabe Evans, in the state’s competitive Eighth Congressional District.
Arkansas voters put Democrat Hallie Shoffner out to pasture in Tuesday's Senate race in favor of incumbent Republican Tom Cotton, a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year who was elected to a third term in the upper chamber.
Angie Nixon, the anti-Israel dues-paying Democratic Socialist and owner of Jacksonville’s black power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore, lost her longshot Senate bid to incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody (R., Fla.) on Tuesday.
Employees of the New York Times, the Federal Reserve, Harvard, and Columbia have poured thousands of dollars in campaign cash into Democratic political campaigns—including some of the most extreme far-left candidates—a Washington Free Beacon review found.
DETROIT — Michigan Senate hopefuls Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed were within 30 miles of each other as they rallied voters for the final time Monday night. Their closing messages were much further apart.
As Denver congressional candidate Melat Kiros—a socialist who said the Sept. 11, 2001, and Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks were "inevitable"—faced mounting criticism from Jewish voters, "Jews for Melat" came to her defense, publishing video endorsements and organizing "liberatory" shabbat dinners meant to showcase the…
Election Day is finally here, and no one really knows what's going to happen. Most polling suggests Republicans are in for a shellacking. House and Senate, gone. On the one hand, that seems perfectly plausible. The opposition party typically does well in midterm elections. Democrats are frothing at the mouth. They've…
Each day brings new evidence that the New York Times is abandoning nonpartisan independence and instead embracing the hard left.
The former president of the leading professional psychology association in the United States, the American Psychological Association, reacted to Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel by likening Gazans to George Floyd and Jews to racist police officers, internal emails obtained by the House Committee on…
The top Lebanese diplomat in Detroit, who attended an Arab American banquet in support of Abdul El-Sayed and other Democratic candidates last week, praised Hezbollah's 1983 suicide attack on the U.S. Marine Corps barracks, which killed 241 American service members, in social media posts unearthed by the Washington…
The political action committee affiliated with far-left Florida Marxist group Dream Defenders—which has received millions of dollars from George Soros's charitable network, advocates for abolishing prisons and defunding the police, and glorifies to Palestinian terrorist organizations—has spent $35,863 in support of…
Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign has been quietly supported by a shadowy network of anti-Israel donors and political groups that have quietly spent millions to elect a new breed of radical Democrats, according to a new investigation by the watchdog group Canary Mission. The same financial network is also funding other…
DUBUQUE, Iowa—President Donald Trump and House speaker Mike Johnson said they would welcome Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens to the Republican Party following her stunning endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers for Senate in Michigan two days before voters head to the polls in what has become the nation’s most…
DETROIT — Michigan Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens on Sunday endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, saying she objects to the "hate" promoted by her Democratic primary opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, and some of his high-profile supporters.
Spencer Cox would like you to know he is not running for president. "No, really," the Utah governor insists at the beginning of Off Ramp, a book introducing readers to his upbringing, governing philosophy, and vision for the nation's future. Sure, dude.
When the story of Karyann Parkinson—a Virginia mom convicted of child abuse for letting her five-year-old walk alone to a nearby pond—went viral last month, I didn't know what to think. Of course, the authorities' reaction was disproportionate; trusting your kid shouldn't be a crime. But as a parent, I wondered…
"A rabbi, a priest, and an imam walk into a research program funded by NASA to talk about the intersection of God and aliens," quipped Business Insider after NASA gave more than $1 million to Princeton's Center of Theological Inquiry to study how the world's religions might respond to the discovery of extraterrestrial…
In the summer of '71, as rock royalty played for charity at the Concert for Bangladesh in New York, a band of cretinous dirtballs emerged from the Midwest's teenage wasteland with a breakout album that made mincemeat of the fashionable save-the-world vibe. It was titled Love It to Death, and the cover showed the group…
Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens will no longer appear at a planned “unity” event for her Democratic Senate primary opponent Abdul El-Sayed after he refused to condemn an antisemitic ad produced on his behalf that blames the rising cost of groceries on Jews and Israel.
So much of Washington's attention is concentrated on Taiwan that Americans sometimes forget China picks fights with nearly all of its other neighbors too. Beijing's claims to the South China Sea and various islands owned by our allies garner some attention, but the land grabs to China's south are less well known.
Jasmine Crockett's pastor called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "the new KKK" at a boisterous campaign rally for Texas Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday. Talarico thanked him for the "kind words" and congratulated him on his expected accession to Crockett's Congressional seat.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon said she can't be held accountable for any laws that her charitable black-power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore may have violated because she secretly resigned from the nonprofit nearly a year ago. Nixon's prior statements tell a different story.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed continues to double down on his public associations with antisemites, campaigning Thursday alongside a Nation of Islam "student minister" and acolyte of the antisemitic group's longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, who has referred to Jews as "termites" and praised Adolf Hitler.
President Trump sent a video message to the ten-year anniversary celebration of Unleash Prosperity, a pro-growth group that focuses on economic policy. It was a warm greeting, paying tribute to the group’s founders, who Trump called “four of the all time greats”—”my friend Steve Moore,” Arthur Laffer, Steve Forbes…
Abdul El-Sayed has a long history of involvement with a notorious Michigan mosque whose leaders have defended payments to the families of terrorists and offered prayers to Allah to destroy the Jews.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who faces growing opposition from Jewish Democrats, quietly attended a banquet Wednesday night for an Arab-American lobbying group led by Osama Siblani, a notorious Dearborn-based activist who said that Arabs should send Israeli Jews "back to Poland," that Israel's actions in…
The Obama administration "found evidence suggesting" that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother, the New York Times revealed on Thursday. Imagine that!
For years, Maine Democrat Troy Jackson, running for Senate as a "working class voice" and "logger by trade," has claimed to run a "Logging and Forestry" company, Jackson Associates, in his rural town of Allagash. It's actually a consulting firm, according to Jackson's personal financial disclosure, which shows that…
Election Day is next Tuesday. Most normal Americans have better things to do than follow politics obsessively, so we've prepared a helpful guide explaining where the major parties stand on the issues that matter most.
The New York Times, which boasts about its independence and employing more than 2,000 journalists, is increasingly relying on left-leaning outside nonprofit organizations to provide news and editorial content.
Abdul El-Sayed's father sits on the board of a notorious Islamic charity that was once busted for funneling cash to Saddam Hussein and has been raided by the FBI and the U.S. military. The board also features two current members who belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to documents from federal prosecutors.
Democratic political groups and their consultants—including those supporting Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed—are recruiting canvassers with "previous felony convictions" to knock on voters' doors in Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, and other battleground states, according to job listings reviewed by the Washington…
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon is doubling down in the campaign's final days on her fierce opposition to Israel, promoting an endorsement she received from a virulently anti-Israel group that shares ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and whose founder has represented several…
President Donald Trump will announce an EPA proposal on Tuesday evening gutting Biden-era regulations that placed strict limits on methane emissions from oil and gas drilling operations, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Newly released data on the Harvard College class of 2030 say the class is 43.2 percent Asian-American, a record high and more than double the level when Students for Fair Admissions first sued Harvard alleging racial discrimination in admissions.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon's campaign paid a Jacksonville auto body shop owned by Nixon's brother-in-law $6,795 for "vehicle wash & road services," according to campaign finance records filed this month and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The only "road service" the shop provides is towing…
The "mom" featured in a controversial Michigan Senate ad struggling to pay for eggs—and blaming the war in Gaza—is a Los Angeles-based actress who boasted of shutting down "a big intersection in Hollywood" as part of an anti-Israel protest and submitted public testimony calling on California to ban natural gas in new…
Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, who visited Jeffrey Epstein's infamous Caribbean island and sent gifts to Epstein and his "girls," has contributed millions of dollars to the House and Senate Democratic super PACs flooding the airwaves with ads linking Republicans to the dead sex offender.
Abdul E-Sayed wrote that it was "troubling" that the United States killed the al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri—who is widely considered the mastermind of 9/11—in a 2022 targeted drone strike. Killing al-Zawahiri was "a fig leaf" to cover up the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, El-Sayed wrote in 2022.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon violated myriad federal and state laws, including federal wire fraud laws, in the operation of her black power-themed Cafe Resistance bookstore, an ethics watchdog alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday. The alleged violations stem from Nixon's failure to report to the IRS…
Harvard, almost constantly congratulating itself for its courage in standing up to the supposed authoritarian crackdown of the Trump administration, simultaneously saw its endowment soar on the basis of an investment recently valued at $2.2 billion in Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Abdul El-Sayed exudes a volatile combination of "toxic masculinity" and "small-dog energy" on the campaign trail, especially when fielding questions from the press. The Michigan Democrat, who claims to be 5-foot-9 in basketball shoes, is trying to become one of the shortest men to serve in the U.S. Senate since the…
A top aide to Abdul El-Sayed has publicly called former president Joe Biden a "dipshit" and "rapist" and blasted the United States as "cringe" on July 4, a Washington Free Beacon review of now-deleted posts shows.
Cenk Uygur, the uncle of anti-American streamer and Abdul El-Sayed campaign surrogate Hasan Piker, is behind an ad supporting El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race that blames Israel for high grocery prices in the United States and accuses El-Sayed's Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, of dual loyalties. One Jewish…
Abdul El-Sayed sought to "soothe" anti-Israel voters in Dearborn during a roundtable discussion this week with local activist Osama Siblani, who has called Hamas and Hezbollah "freedom fighters" and called for Israeli Jews to be sent "back to Poland."
As Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) tells it, she and her husband, Tim Mynett, are on the precipice of financial ruin. The embattled lawmaker told MSNOW she lives a "basic" paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle and struggles to pay rent on her two homes—in the same Wednesday interview during which, asked whether she was related…
When Abdul El-Sayed interviewed for the job of Wayne County health director in 2023, he insisted he had "no intention" of leaving the job "anytime soon" to run for political office and was in it "for the long haul." Just over two years later, he launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate.
For years, Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, the Democratic nominee in the state's competitive Eighth Congressional District, introduced himself to media outlets and environmental activists as the CEO of Climate Refarm, "a company leveraging carbon markets to pay food providers to switch to plant-based options."
Ian Fleming called his secret agent James Bond because the name was dull. But there is nothing dull about Robin Wigglesworth's history of the bond market's relentless innovation toward efficiency, liquidity (and crashes) from the Middle Ages to the present. Wigglesworth, the editor of the Financial Times's witty…
Take care before judging a book by its subtitle. Those expecting The Visionaries, a new work by the British historian James Holland, to contain a detailed exposition of the 1944 conference in Bretton Woods that led to the formation of the IMF and the initial phase of the World Bank will be disappointed to discover
In early May 2007, my friend and I wandered the streets of Oita, Japan, at night, trying to understand this strange culture all around us. Near a main downtown intersection close to Miyako Machi, the "red-light district" of the area, I saw a young man with dark, slicked-back hair, a black suit, white-collared shirt…
A ghost story should start with a time reference, according to the man who may be the master of the form. "A slight haze of distance is desirable," wrote M.R. James. "'Thirty years ago,' 'Not long before the war,' are very proper openings."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) appeared to take a shot at President Donald Trump in the video she posted Friday that depicted her strolling along a serene Minnesota lakeside with her current husband. The video was set to a violence-hued hip-hop diss track by a Somali musical duo who rap about how they will "subjugate and…
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) appeared to take a shot at President Donald Trump in the video she posted Friday that depicted her strolling along a serene Minnesota lakeside with her current husband. The video was set to a violence-hued hip-hop diss track by a Somali musical duo who rap about how they will "subjugate and…
The FBI raided the home of the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's mother in the early 2000s, likely in connection with a terror financing case that shut down the Islamic charity she worked for, according to El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi.
Most diplomats are judged by their ability to stay out of the news, but Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack made headlines this week. Speaking at the Global Security Forum in Doha, he said, "America as the guarantor to the world, for the last 80 years, it is no longer there." Accordingly, the United States is
Most reasonable observers can agree that James Talarico, the Democrat running for student body president U.S. Senate in Texas, has an authenticity problem.
Multnomah County, Ore., agreed on Wednesday to eliminate all race-based housing programs as part of a voluntary compliance agreement with the Trump administration, which had alleged that the county's "culturally specific" services—including special apartments for the "BIPOC community"—violated the Fair Housing Act.
On Sept. 23, Nebraska "independent" Senate candidate Dan Osborn was thrown a private Washington, D.C., fundraiser cohosted by an Anthropic lobbyist. The next day, Osborn declared at a press conference that he would "never" accept contributions from AI companies and accused his Republican opponent of being a shill for…
Democrat Hallie Shoffner, running for Senate in Arkansas against incumbent Republican Tom Cotton, argued that requiring "proof of citizenship" to vote "disenfranchises 22 million Americans." She said the SAVE Act, the proposed federal legislation that calls for that requirement, would impact "low-income Americans"…
CHICAGO—Mehdi Hasan, the fired MSNBC host who now runs the virulently anti-Israel news startup Zeteo, presided Tuesday over a gathering focused on the malign influence of AIPAC—the pro-Israel American lobbying organization—which is being portrayed by a growing chorus of far-left conspiracy theorists as a shadowy…
An internal document from the group that organized Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander’s trip to the West Bank describes Israel as “genocidal” and engaged in “ethnic cleansing” and says the trip’s goal is to build support for “international intervention” against Israel.
GREELEY, Colo.—Democrat Manny Rutinel, the former climate activist running in the Centennial State's competitive Eighth Congressional District as a supporter of the oil and gas industry, identified the man he hopes tops the Democratic ticket in 2028: Obama administration interior secretary Ken Salazar, who…
GREELEY, Colo.—Democrat Manny Rutinel, the former climate activist running in the Centennial State's competitive Eighth Congressional District as a supporter of the oil and gas industry, identified the man he hopes tops the Democratic ticket in 2028: Obama administration interior secretary Ken Salazar, who…
Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola is running for Senate against the "rigged system in DC that's hurting Alaska while politicians feather their own nest." Before launching her campaign, Peltola made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for a lobbying firm she joined months after cosponsoring a bill that the firm…
Abdul El-Sayed's campaign treasurer is also the treasurer of a shadowy super PAC spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost third-party candidates in the Michigan Senate race and other battleground contests, a Washington Free Beacon investigation has found. In Michigan, the PAC is presenting the libertarian…
At least six men who joined Abdul El-Sayed in signing a notorious 2012 letter calling for a Muslim Brotherhood "purge" of the media and police have also donated handsomely to his two runs for office, mostly to his current Senate campaign, records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
A public middle school in the Berkeley, California, school district held fundraisers to raise money for a group with "fiscal and personnel ties" to a Palestinian terrorist organization, a House Committee on Education and Workforce report released on Wednesday found. The district's superintendent also promoted the…