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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…
Many people are talking about Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times essay she wrote about why sending her daughter to a failing public school for political reasons was a major whoopsie.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wore a hijab during a visit last week to a Bronx mosque where the powerful New York Democrat sat alongside a cleric who once celebrated Hamas for "causing so much trouble for the Jews" and has hailed Osama bin Laden's spiritual mentor. Gillibrand, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign…
The Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn was slapped with a lawsuit on Tuesday that alleged an antisemitic intimidation campaign by its leadership to silence Jews who objected to its boycott of Israeli food, according to a copy of the lawsuit first obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donors, has forged a "dangerous partnership with Communist China" and is pouring millions of dollars into China-based nonprofits that are advancing the Chinese Communist Party's foreign policy goals.
An imam at a mosque attended by Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed described Zionists as the "cockroaches of history" and claimed the main religious duty of American Muslims is to fight them with "every single mode that is within your reach as a citizen of this country."
A charity controlled by Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon raised more than $270,000 in 2024, tax-exempt funds that Nixon said she would use to support Cafe Resistance, the black power-themed bookstore and coffee shop she was launching in Jacksonville. But when Nixon opened the shop that same year, she…
Scranton, Pa., mayor Paige Cognetti, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District, released a campaign ad on Tuesday accusing corporations of exploiting the "little guys" by price gouging groceries. Yet her husband's gourmet food store, which reviewers have described as "expensive" and…
Kate Upton's husband enjoyed a storybook ending to his Hall of Fame baseball career on Saturday. Justin Verlander, 43, sobbed like a champion as his seven-year-old daughter rushed to greet him on the mound at Comerica Park in Detroit. Upton beamed with pride by the dugout, holding their one-year-old son. The family…
William Lawrence, running in a hotly contested House race in Michigan, called America a "shithole country" in since-deleted social media posts, the latest example of the far-left Democrat disparaging the United States.
The State Department formally added three more United Nations Relief and Works Agency school teachers to a first-of-its-kind blacklist after an ongoing U.S. investigation concluded that the teachers participated in Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree and held Israelis captive, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal. It's the…
A radical socialist jeweler—who once dressed Michelle Obama and markets his jewelry with macabre dramatizations of a female serial killer—is set to host a big-dollar fundraiser for James Talarico and Sherrod Brown in New York City on Monday.
An ethics watchdog group filed a criminal referral to Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday demanding an investigation into Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon for allegedly filing a false financial disclosure to the Senate in violation of the Ethics in Government Act.
Scranton mayor Paige Cognetti (D.), who is running for Congress against Republican incumbent Rob Bresnahan, turned a stretch of the street she lives on into a one-way street without properly notifying the city council of the change, records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. The move has led to dangerous…
A recurring problem with contemporary books about the Islamic Republic is that authors often deny Iranians the agency they deserve. Especially on the left, Western and Iranian journalists and scholars can embrace this crippling sentiment since it’s been a way to cast off blame for the ugliness—the primitiveness—of the…
Reading this book will improve your life. No kidding whatsoever. Indeed, just getting a copy from your local library and spending 90 minutes with it will improve your life. Nicholas Epley, a distinguished behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, commutes by train every workday to…
For people who have not been initiated to the career of Jon Ronson, it is almost impossible to explain; for people who have, his career is almost impossible to ignore. The America-residing Welsh journalist, whose specialty may be said to be "the weird," is a member of a small and shrinking group of working nonfiction
The Color of Money is not the best film in its three leads' bodies of work (meaning costars Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, alongside director Martin Scorsese). That would be—reader objections expected—The Sting for Newman, Collateral for Cruise, and Goodfellas for Scorsese. Nor is it the most impressive entry in each…
Summits between American and Chinese leaders often seem to mark turning points in international politics. In the 2013 meeting in the Sunnylands, the freshly installed Xi Jinping mollified Barack Obama by promising to stop his regime's hacking campaign. After breaking that promise, in 2016 Beijing denied Obama a…
Of all the speeches that hit the headlines during the U.N. General Assembly—President Trump's, Iranian president Pezeshkian's, Prime Minister Netanyahu's, the Jordanian king's—the one that was most stunning came from the president of France, Emmanuel Macron.
Pete Buttigieg has reason to celebrate after a recent poll of 2028 primary voters found his support among black voters surging to 1 percent. Though the result is well within the margin of error, it's still a notable accomplishment for a Democrat whose black support is often marked as "statistically insignificant."
That is how Joe Carlsmith, one of Anthropic’s PhD philosophers who works on Claude’s constitution, a document used to train the model’s "values and behavior," described the dangers of artificial intelligence in a May 2025 blog post.