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CNN was embarrassingly caught this weekend quietly altering the agenda for its upcoming Global Perspectives forum in Doha, revising sycophantic language that portrayed Qatar—a country notorious for buying influence and consorting with terrorist groups—in an overwhelmingly glowing light.
Welcome to another installment of the Washington Free Beacon's exclusive Q&A series featuring lighthearted interviews with politicians and other newsmakers. No gotcha questions. Just good, old-fashioned icebreakers to keep things fun. This week's guest is Abdul El-Sayed, a.k.a. "Dr. Dad Bod," the Democrat running for…
Abdul El-Sayed joked about how undesirable a city Flint, Mich., was, questioning why anyone would want to live in the black Rust Belt city in remarks to a largely white, Boston University audience in 2016.
Former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper's (D.) top climate advisers were paid for by a progressive nonprofit—the United Nations Foundation—in an initiative designed to enact left-wing climate policies at the state level, thus bypassing President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw America from the Paris Climate…
In January 2026, Anthropic announced a new approach to AI safety. Rather than hard-coding a list of rules and decision procedures, the company would train its model, Claude, on an 84-page "constitution" meant to instill "good judgment" and "ethical character."
Abdul El-Sayed, in a series of unearthed podcast remarks, called for a "truly inclusive" universal health care entitlement that would include "care for transgender people" and "care for immigrants." He later criticized conservatives for demonizing "the undocumented person who comes to this country and wants to get…
Are there any leftists willing to condemn totalitarians? Paul Mason's new book shows there is at least one. Offering a selective, but not irresponsible, history of Communist and revolutionary ideas, Reds pleads with the author's fellow socialists not to repeat the mistakes that cost the lives of millions. Although he…
"It's not easy to be on the vanguard of a new Republican Party or a new conservative movement," then-Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance told the "Restoring a Nation" conference in October 2022. "There is a risk that it gets folded into Fusionism 2.0," Vance warned.
The son of Sri Lankan immigrants, Randy Boyagoda grew up on the northern shore of Lake America, in the soon-to-be-annexed Territory of Mar-A-Lago North. In addition to teaching literature at the University of Toronto, he is a celebrated novelist and essayist. He is also a lifelong Catholic, whose third book was a…
Larman is well placed to make it, having spent a large part of his career reporting on the grandest and grubbiest corners of the House of Windsor, whose headquarters is just down the road—there is no vault of sordid gossip Larman can't crank open. The Secrets of Eaton Square moves house by house, rather than by…
Abdul El-Sayed fundraised earlier this month alongside a former New York City public school principal who resigned for defending the use of the term “intifada” as a t-shirt slogan, and, over the summer, with a Muslim activist who led the Gaza flotilla movement and who has described Thanksgiving as a “national day of…
Donald Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin has long been the subject of controversy, and the recent diesel purchase agreement brought it back into the spotlight. Setting aside the feverish accusations that Trump is somehow Putin's subordinate, many think the president is overly deferential to the blood-soaked…
Jon Ossoff's makeup tab continues to mount heading into the midterms. The Democratic senator from Georgia paid his favorite Hollywood makeup artist $1,749 in July, according to his latest campaign financial disclosure. Ossoff has now paid Atlanta-based freelancer Stephanie Ponder, whose film credits include The…
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told a group of Jewish voters at a Detroit synagogue in 2018 that he views the Israeli military "the same way" that he views Hamas, according to video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Two days after Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson said, "I know that there's no billionaires funding me," he released a long-awaited campaign finance report showing donations from at least four billionaires. Jackson acknowledged the flip-flop during a Thursday evening debate against his Republican opponent, incumbent…
You Can See Everything is nominally a documentary about the medical-tech fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and the 34 days she spends with her family before she is finally compelled to begin her 11-year prison sentence in 2023.
Abdul El-Sayed's sister is defending the left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful from left-wingers who have criticized him for his decision to rally with former president Barack Obama, saying that while Obama may be an "establishment" figure, El-Sayed's "policies have not changed."
Princeton’s first-year orientation program for the entire incoming class of 2030 featured an author who refused to publicly pronounce the word “trump” while the university’s president, Christopher Eisgruber, “sitting across from her, smiled and said nothing.”
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed defended his infamous statement that "hurt people hurt people," in which he justified the terrorist attack at a Michigan synagogue, telling NBC News that he was trying to help people "understand" the "cycle of violence." A Jewish Democrat whose son was attending…
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said he drew inspiration from the "excellent" works of a disgraced Oxford professor—and grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna—best known for his diatribes against "Jewish intellectuals" and for being sentenced to 18 years in French prison for…
A private conference at George Washington University's prestigious Elliott School of International Affairs—convened to discuss the war on terror—became two days of far-left ranting overwhelmingly focused on attacking Israel, "Zionist billionaires of the Epstein class," "U.S.-Zionist genociding," and "Anti-Blackness…
New York City comptroller Mark Levine is the latest Democratic politician to throw Israel under the bus, declaring that he is "heartbroken at the state of politics in the country right now," and that he would break his campaign promise to invest some city pension funds in Israel bonds.
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed dismissed his sister’s claims that their Egyptian relatives are members of the Muslim Brotherhood as "hearsay" in a heated exchange with Tom Llamas of NBC News. El-Sayed denied any personal knowledge of his family's deep ties to the Islamist organization.
NEW YORK CITY—The Big Apple's avowedly socialist housing czar was heckled and jeered Tuesday evening by an activist who accused the Mamdani administration of forcing low-income residents of color out of public housing and of being a “white supremacist.”
Scranton, Pa., mayor Paige Cognetti, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District, tentatively settled a lawsuit brought by a former city employee alleging that she was fired after facing a "campaign of harassment, intimidation, and unfounded and unfair scrutiny" for supporting Cognetti's…
Left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is out with an ad featuring a "lifelong Republican" who says he has voted "nine times" for Republican Mike Rogers. The supposed GOP stalwart, Rich Perlberg, is a former newspaper publisher who endorsed John Kerry and Barack Obama for president and has since called for…
WASILLA, Alaska—President Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that Taiwan has agreed to purchase a staggering 30 percent of the natural gas shipped every year through a proposed 807-mile pipeline project in Alaska. As part of the deal, the Taiwanese government will also invest $4.4 billion in the project, Trump…
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed served as his "queer Muslim" half-sister's legal guardian in a Sharia marriage a decade ago, according to a documentary obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. He performed the sacred duties years after the sister said her family "had long been MB," or Muslim Brotherhood…
In a 2021 article on a since-deleted Substack account, the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed defended a man he described as his "friend" after he was jailed for funding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The man, Mohamed Soltan, is the son of a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who called to kill…
In court documents and public statements amid Harvard’s multi-billion-dollar fight with the Trump administration over antisemitism, the university has pointed to new faculty hires as evidence of what Harvard calls its "commitment to combating antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias."
Abdul El-Sayed called himself "an immigrant from North Africa" at the Michigan Democratic Party's Spring 2017 convention, marking the latest example of El-Sayed making a questionable statement about his citizenship.
As president of the Maine Senate, Democrat Troy Jackson, now running for U.S. Senate as an opponent of "greedy corporations," cosponsored a bill allowing online lenders to skirt Maine's interest rate caps when offering small-dollar loans to borrowers with poor credit. A lobbying firm that employed Jackson's son…
Hillary Clinton is once again at the center of romantic intrigue as she continues to navigate what she long hoped would be her post-White House years. The twice-failed presidential candidate is starting a podcast with Kara Swisher, the tech-adjacent media tycoon who happens to be a lesbian. The power couple will…
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania—a likely 2028 Democratic presidential contender perceived in some circles as a pro-Israel moderate—used a recent debate in his own re-election campaign to call on Israeli voters to dump Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Abdul El-Sayed touts endorsements from police unions on his campaign website and says he will "work hand in hand with law enforcement" if elected to the Senate in Michigan. But in videos unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed said his "heart races" out of fear when he sees cops, suggested that American…
Gustavo L. Gordillo, the embattled co-chair of New York City's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, has made a name for himself railing against property ownership, landlords, and real estate investors who enjoy robust rates of return.
The former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party is calling out Abdul El-Sayed's campaign over a statement—presented as being the candidate's own words and appearing for months on his campaign website—that justified the actions of Ayman Ghazali, the Hezbollah supporter who attacked a Michigan synagogue and Jewish…
Democrats don't celebrate Columbus Day anymore because of imperialism or whatever, but they're increasingly reluctant to acknowledge its woke replacement, Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Abdul El-Sayed’s mother—whom the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate has described as “smart, warm, charismatic” and whom he called on camera in a May campaign video—was active in the Muslim Brotherhood while in college in Egypt, a revelation that further contradicts El-Sayed’s recent claims that neither he nor his…
The CEO of a Wisconsin foundation that helps ex-cons return to society said she wanted to "create a whole community for our sex offenders." Two years later, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate and Milwaukee County executive David Crowley (D.) spoke at the group's annual gala, saying, "Milwaukee County, we share in your…
New York City first lady Rama Duwaji’s self-declared artistic "inspiration," whose portrait she’s painted in tribute, is a radical Hamas propagandist who praised the terror group’s leaders as "great heroes," openly celebrated the Oct. 7 attack against Israel, and has claimed that The Diary of Anne Frank is a Jewish…
Abdul El-Sayed said on Meet the Press on Sunday that neither he nor any of his family members have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that spawned Hamas. But the far-left Senate candidate’s half-sister has suggested otherwise, boasting on social media that her family “has long been” Muslim Brotherhood…
Last year I met with an elected official frequently described in the press as friendly to the business community. The politician suggested the two of us could find common ground over shared "pro-business" leanings. That’s nice, I replied, but support for economic freedom does not always mean support for business. When…
Roy Cohn, who burst onto the national political scene in the 1950s by pursuing communists, first in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and later as chief aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, transformed himself in the 1960s and '70s into a take-no-prisoners divorce lawyer and mouthpiece for Mafia bosses, and then…
In the 20th century, certain corporate brands became so well-known as to be immediately recognizable: McDonald's golden arches, the Nike swoosh, and, for a certain segment of the population, the Mary Kay pink Cadillac.
Down the generations, certain intellectuals have been attracted to opera. Nietzsche, outstandingly. Also Bernard Williams, the English philosopher (1929–2003). Williams wrote about opera throughout his life, and, three years after his death, a collection was published: On Opera. In 2017, Mitchell Cohen, the political…
The Reagan Revolution didn't just usher in a wave of prosperity, but also wholesome patriotism. Every proper child of the 1980s has a wisp of nostalgia for the times. Reagan was an actor, and Hollywood wasn't so uptight about politics. Producers then shoveled cash into content that lionized the military, pleased the…
Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, the congressional nominee running in the state's competitive Eighth Congressional District, boasted that he "joined a bipartisan push" to create a $350 million police fund. That fund was actually created through a ballot measure put forward by a right-wing group.
As the Iran conflict threatens to intensify and tech CEOs fret openly about their creations' potential to destroy humanity, now might not seem the time for an extended meditation on America's civilizational roots. But for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, these traditions are most valuable at times of great peril, like…
James Talarico has been missing in action for almost two weeks. His campaign would like us to believe "the flu" is to blame. In the words of one Texas Democrat, who for obvious reasons declined to be named, "He's, like, really sick." The American people aren't buying it.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), who's actively considering a 2028 presidential run, was the keynote speaker this week at a gala hosted by the virulently anti-Israel organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), which notoriously targeted prominent Jewish Americans affiliated with the American Israel Public…
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed denounced France as "the colonizer" and said he spoke "for the whole African & Arab diaspora" during the 2022 World Cup, according to deleted social media posts. El-Sayed, who has a history of anti-Western and anti-American remarks, was rooting for upstart Morocco in its…
Harvard University is cheering a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is being widely denounced elsewhere as a bigot.
Maine Democrat Troy Jackson, who is running for U.S. Senate as an opponent of "greedy corporations," said he couldn't do anything to stop a PAC he led from taking tens of thousands of dollars from corporations.
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Israel and Iran pose equal threats to the United States. Both the Islamic regime and the U.S. ally "have proven dangerous in their own way," El-Sayed said.
Too bad the Ultimate Fighting Championship stage has been taken down from the White House lawn, because if it were still there, it’d provide a venue for what is emerging as one of the bitterest and most consequential political and economic fights in the run-up to the midterm elections: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…
ABC News has quietly deleted a story it published this week alleging the Pentagon awarded billions of dollars in contracts to Anduril Industries—founded by the tech billionaire Palmer Luckey—because Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump allegedly hold a sizable stake in the defense contractor.
Two Yale faculty members are facing scrutiny for traveling to an "academic forum" in China's far-flung Xinjiang region, where China has been accused of rampant human rights abuses against the ethnic Uyghurs, including locking them up en masse in re-education camps. The forum's organizers and accompanying tour included…
Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Troy Jackson has referred to the pharmaceutical industry as "the anti-Christ" and attacked "high-priced lobbyists and corporate greed." He also appears to have a close relationship with a pair of Maine lobbyists who represented a pharmaceutical company that faced intense criticism for…
Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has raked in thousands of dollars in campaign donations from individuals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamist and terrorist movement, campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett's (D., Texas) pastor, now running with her endorsement to replace her in Congress, wired thousands of dollars to a female "mentee" who had sent him topless photos in the mail at his church, according to a lawsuit.
A nationwide survey of undergraduate students conducted by Yale University’s Buckley Institute, a conservative student group, found that the popularity of socialism is surging among college students just as socialist political candidates are rising in American politics.
Two decades ago, a spectacular allegation of gang rape at a prestigious university seized the public’s attention. We all know how the Duke lacrosse case ended: with the prosecutor disgraced and disbarred; the accused students declared innocent; and (albeit much later) the accuser admitting that she lied.
Daniel Dale, CNN's indefatigable guardian of truth, is harassing an innocent victim of online radicalism, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
A Haverford College professor arrested for cyberstalking a Jewish coworker has an extensive online trail of violent antisemitic rantings that frequently praise Hitler and the Holocaust, a Washington Free Beacon review of his social media activity.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon passionately defended a wall honoring several notorious black power militants, including convicted murderers, terrorists, and armed robbers, in her Jacksonville cafe and bookstore during a heated exchange with critics at a campaign event this week.
Ohio Democratic House nominee Don Leonard's campaign quietly deleted a video from its YouTube channel where he condemned the "genocide in Gaza" and "terrors that are happening with our ICE agents here in the homeland." He also thanked his "Muslim brothers and sisters" for helping him secure his party's nomination.
In contrast to the drunk or drugged or immature Cornell students, the university’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, is supposed to be a sober grownup.
They're extra 72 virgins. New York City first lady Rama Duwaji has created art for a virulently anti-Israel olive oil company that celebrates Palestinian violence, trades in antisemitic imagery, and sells expensive bottles that celebrate an OG Palestinian terrorist who shot down a British plane.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson said he's “not going to apologize” for claiming two different homes as his primary residences while serving as president of the Maine Senate, claims that prompted allegations of mortgage fraud.
In March 2023, U.S. Senate hopeful Troy Jackson, then the president of the Maine Senate, took credit for having "secured" a new cell phone tower in his rural town of Allagash, a project he dedicated to the town's "hardworking families" who "have been left behind when it comes to this essential service." Unmentioned in…
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin worked for nearly a decade with partners in China on sensitive technology projects that likely helped China build its notorious domestic surveillance apparatus, including in Xinjiang province, where the Chinese are accused of brutal repression of the ethnic Uyghur…
Arkansas Democratic Senate nominee Hallie Shoffner employed three illegal immigrants at the family farming company she led, a former senior employee told the Washington Free Beacon, contradicting Shoffner's claims as she campaigns against Republican incumbent Tom Cotton. The former employee—who worked for Shoffner for…
Abdul El-Sayed has quietly campaigned three times this year with a Michigan-based cleric who served as an Iranian Navy propaganda apparatchik in the 1980s and as a high-ranking official at Iran's Martyrs Foundation, now sanctioned by the U.S. government for funneling money to Hezbollah and paying stipends to the…
A Columbia University graduate student who praised Hamas for its "inspirational" tactics and appeared on a panel with members of a designated terrorist group has been elected to the university's main policymaking body.
BOSTON—A federal judge overstepped her authority when she ordered the federal government to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants to Harvard that the Trump administration had terminated, a government lawyer told a panel of appellate judges Monday.
"Woke 1 was crazy," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said in August. We rate this claim half true. Crazy? Yes. Was? Hardly.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday morning in a high-stakes case that asks if state and local governments can sue energy companies over hotly contested climate issues. At stake is whether a volley of lawsuits against oil companies from Democrat-run cities, counties, and states can move forward.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told a Detroit audience in 2016 that he has "dual citizenship" in the United States and Egypt, according to previously unreported video. It's the second time he's been documented making the claim, even though his campaign now claims he was never a dual citizen.
Democratic prosecutors in Hawaii filed an unexpected subpoena over the summer against the American Petroleum Institute (API), the nation's largest oil industry trade group, demanding a trove of climate change-related documents and correspondence with 225 entities, including media outlets, academic institutions…
Dan Osborn, the Independent Nebraska Senate candidate endorsed by Democrats, ducked out of a picket line in 2021 to address a far-left convention of young Democrats that featured a land acknowledgement, calls for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and a resolution to let prostitutes form a labor union.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed praised the British democratic system as superior to America's in a 2010 op-ed, arguing that the British system is better because it allows ethnic minority groups to concentrate more electoral power.
Almost 40 years ago, when he was still a new member of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech, later published as an essay, on how judges should interpret the Constitution. In "Originalism: The Lesser Evil," Scalia argued that judges should interpret the Constitution's words in accordance with how…
Before the Trump administration's sweeping demands for reform in the Ivy League, before "it depends on the context," before the tentifada, before the occupation of Hamilton Hall, before Yale administrators tried to railroad a law student over a "trap house" party, before students screamed at Erika Christakis for…
Library shelves the world over groan under the weight of magisterial tomes recounting the remarkable career of Sir Winston Churchill. What a pleasure to meet a new, blessedly compact study—engrossing and revelatory—of the 20th century's most indispensable statesman.
Fiction is full of novels that depict the murky intrigue, grubby treachery, and moral compromise of the world’s second-oldest profession. Yet among those serious and credible representations are novels that poke fun at the spying game and its operatives, either with subtlety or with gusto. Graham Greene and John le…
When Manhunter was released in 1986, it was panned as a "hokey," "chic, well-cast wasteland," whose plot fell apart "like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crime" by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, respectively. The mainstream media, as usual, were wrong. While the…
Israel is no stranger to diplomatic isolation, but the widespread condemnation it has received after the October 7 atrocities has been unusually strong and meritless. Last week, the dozens of delegates walking out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations seemed to dramatize Israel's…
Higher-ed haters (of which, sadly, there are many) would have you believe our elite universities are overrun with self-serious scolds. That students and faculty alike inhabit a cloistered fantasy world, consumed by radical ideologies that preclude them from recognizing how absurd they seem to normal people.
Michigan's left-wing Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed billed county taxpayers $ 9,000 per month in consulting fees while running for Senate, according to public records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Here's one fact the New York Times left out of its breathlessly hyped front-page story about how Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Muse.ai parent company Meta is "exploiting a lucrative tax break": the New York Times Company itself has reaped $47.65 million in benefits from 2021 to 2025 from the same research and…
More than half the names on the embattled Committee to Protect Journalists' revised list of "journalists" slain in Gaza "have connections to terrorist groups," even after the New York-based advocacy organization conducted a months-long review meant to identify and remove confirmed combatants from its widely cited…
Colorado Democrat Manny Rutinel, a congressional nominee running in a swing district heavily reliant on ranching, once boasted that his "entire" job working for a far-left environmental group was to "take on large meat corporations and sue them for all they're worth."
Pennsylvania Democratic candidate Bob Brooks, running in one of the country's most competitive House races, claimed on an application for a taxpayer-funded COVID-19 loan that he had no financial judgments against him and had not defaulted on any loans. At the time, Brooks had two judgments for unpaid credit cards and…
"$700 MILLION MEDICAL DEBT ERASED." So boasted the first major TV ad for Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign in Michigan—in a bright-yellow, all-caps caption blanketing the screen, as the voice-over said that El-Sayed "got rid of millions of dollars of medical debt."
In early 2024 the band Hatikva 6 released a song that captured the spirit of Israel as it responded to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack. "Everyone looks so ordinary but … We're a nation of superheroes. In each and every one hides a soldier ready to save the world," it says.
Iowa Democratic Senate nominee Josh Turek skipped a vote on legislation funding treatments for drinking water—which has been tied to the Hawkeye State's soaring cancer rates—to attend a happy hour hosted by the nonprofit arm of VoteVets, a left-wing group whose super PAC has spent millions on his campaign and is…
Eat, pray, bomb. New York City's first lady is currently wrapping up a week as an "artist-in-residence" at a luxury Islamic wellness retreat that has called for the destruction of Israel and openly celebrated Palestinian terrorism, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, a boycott-Israel activist since his college days who as recently as this month was denouncing the Israeli prime minister as a war criminal who should be arrested and prosecuted, rolled out a "strategy to combat antisemitism" that was immediately met with withering derision from…
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D.) has said that expanding health care access and driving down costs is a "top priority" as she faces a difficult race to hold her swing seat in Washington's Third Congressional District. But that apparently doesn't apply to the Democrat's staff. Gluesenkamp Perez doesn't provide health…