Covering up the Biden cover-up. Journalist gets remedial course in human decency. Why Hunter Biden threatened Jake Tapper at the Super Bowl. Ousted DNC vice chair David Hogg reaps what he sows. It’s Friday, May 16, 2025 It was a bad week for Democrats, who are already gearing…
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‘We Occasionally Misjudge’: Pulitzer Board Told Me I Was out of Line When I Asked Why the Organization Gave an Award to Palestinian ‘Poet’ Who Made Hateful Comments About Israeli Hostages
We don’t get a lot of emails from the Pulitzer Prize committee here at the Washington Free Beacon, so when I received one in November of last year asking me to serve as a member of a Pulitzer Prize nominating jury, I was sure it wasn’t real—possibly a…
‘Corpse of the Phallus,’ Black Latex, and Circus Performers: Meet The Avant-Garde Artists Arrested For Violently Storming Columbia Library
Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he…
Biden’s Highly Paid Enablers at MSNBC
The media’s role in covering up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is getting more attention ahead of the release of a new book by journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios. Some have argued the media tried their hardest and can’t be blamed for failing to…
Republican Looks To Dismantle ‘Eyesore’ White House Peace Vigil
Peace out! A GOP lawmaker is demanding the Department of the Interior take action against the White House Peace Vigil, an encampment encased in tarps that’s been pitched across from the White House since 1981 and is believed to be the longest-running continuous protest in U.S. history. It…
ANALYSIS: Jordon Hudson Outshined and Outclassed by Historic Transgender Contestant at So-Called Beauty Pageant
Jordon Hudson, the widely despised girlfriend of cheating NFL coach Bill Belichick, placed a humiliating third over the weekend at a so-called beauty pageant in Maine, one of America’s least attractive states. Belichick, 73, looked on as Hudson, 24, failed to take home the top prize at the…
CRAZY IN LOVE: Left-Wing Democratic House Candidate Dating Ben Collins, Former NBC News ‘Misinformation’ Expert
Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old Democratic influencer running for Congress in Illinois, is dating Ben Collins, the former “misinformation” expert at NBC News who recently became CEO of The Onion, a satire website that used to be funny. The Chicago Tribune accidentally broke the explosive story on Monday by…
Keeping Up With the Clintons: How the Bidens Went Broke, and How to Fix It
Mark Halperin reports on what is likely the real reason behind Joe Biden’s return to the public spotlight in recent days, which some have suggested is an attempt to “fight back” against damning revelations about his cognitive decline. “Biden, Inc., needs a source of revenue,” he said, citing…
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Launches Civil Rights Probe of Harvard’s Hiring Practices
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether Harvard University unlawfully hires faculty based on race and sex, arguing that the school’s own data provides evidence of discrimination. The probe is the latest federal action against the beleaguered university, which last month sued the Trump administration over its…
Weekend Beacon 5/11/25
Welcome to our special Mother’s Day edition of the Weekend Beacon, featuring all the subjects we love discussing with our mothers: faith, sex, drugs, and politics! (Okay, not all the subjects.) We begin with Mary Eberstadt, who reviews Ross Douthat’s Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. “Believe is vintage Douthat, marked by genial…
Pocahontas 2.0
“What I didn’t like about becoming famous overnight,” Mallory McMorrow writes in her new book Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, “is that you might assume that I had always done this, that somehow it came naturally.” Unless you’re…
Progressive participation trophies
Trump conquers the Vatican. Biden speaks, removes all doubt. Progressive participation trophies. Hot ballerina in the White House. It’s Friday, May 9, 2025 Finally, an American pope. This never would have happened on Joe Biden’s watch. Pope Francis, who was not American, died last month a few hours…
First American Pope Leo XIV Voted in Republican Primaries, Records Show
Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, voted in several Republican primaries before being elevated as successor to Pope Francis, election records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Leo XIV, who previously lived in Chicago, voted in Republican primaries during the 2012, 2014, and 2016 election…
Haverford President Needs Giant Notecards To Remind Her Killing Jews Is Bad
Dr. Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, turned up to a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism lugging giant notecards reminding her to “think,” “breathe,” and “remember body posture,” but also to not equivocate on the question of whether it’s bad to call for the extermination of…
To Rebut Reports of His Senility, Biden Hires Press Flack Who Helped Hide Lloyd Austin’s Hospital Stay
Joe Biden, 82, hired a publicist who previously helped cover up former defense secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization to defend him against allegations of senility. The former president’s team tapped Biden administration spokesman Chris Meagher to “help [Biden] transition past the first 100 days of the Trump administration,”…
Columbia Radicals Take Over Campus Library, Forcing Out Students Studying for Finals
A mob of Columbia University radicals stormed a campus library Wednesday afternoon, forcing out dozens of students studying for their final exams. Video footage shows around 100 masked radicals in dark clothing storming Butler Library, pushing their way past a campus security guard at the building’s entrance. Columbia…
Exclusive Analysis: Kamala’s Stepdaughter, ‘Textile Artist’ Ella Emhoff, Skips Leg Day as Often as She Shaves Her Armpits (Never)
The New Yorker, which fashions itself as a serious magazine for intellectuals, recently published some photos of “notable New Yorkers” posing in their (mostly cramped and depressing) living rooms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the cut, as did Al Sharpton, the notorious anti-Semite who runs a sponsored content racket out…
Trump DOE Cancels $4.5 Million Biden-Era Contract To Develop Green Energy Logo, Website
The Department of Energy canceled a $4.5 million contract the Biden administration awarded to develop a new agency website and logo symbolically highlighting the green energy transition, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Former president Joe Biden’s Department of Energy awarded the contract to the Native American firm…
Mohsen Mahdawi, in Deportation Battle With Trump Admin, Bragged to Neighbors About Building Guns for Terrorists: ‘He Was a Very Angry Young Man’
A Palestinian activist at Columbia University spooked neighbors in his small Vermont town by bragging about his hatred of Jews and his background of building weapons for terrorist groups, according to interviews and 2015 police records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Mohsen Mahdawi, who had recently moved…
Columbia’s Pulitzer Disgrace
The increasingly irrelevant Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to a slew of left-wing news reports, chronicled by our colleague Andrew Stiles here. The prize for commentary went to the “Palestinian poet” Mosab Abu Toha for his work in the New Yorker—”deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir,”…
Biden Defends Decision To Run Again Despite Age Concerns: I Was ‘So Successful’ It Was ‘Difficult To Walk Away’
Former president Joe Biden, 82, offered a semi-coherent defense of his decision to seek reelection in his first sit-down interview since leaving office in disgrace. “What happened was, I had become what we set out to do, no one thought we could do, and become so successful,” he…
WaPo Fact-Checker Who Attacked Tim Scott’s Black Heritage, Accused GOP of Lying About Biden’s Senility, Wins Journalism Award
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s preeminent fact-checker best known for attacking Tim Scott’s black heritage and dismissing evidence of Joe Biden’s decline as a right-wing conspiracy, is finally being honored for his commitment to “truth, accountability, and transparency.” The Museum of Political Corruption announced Kessler as this year’s…
What Vibe Shift? Pulitzer Prize Board Affirms Media’s Obsession With Woke Politics
Mainstream journalists have yet to embrace the cultural “vibe shift” triggered by Donald Trump’s election in 2024 (and probably never will before the entire industry collapses in a heap of financial ruin). The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday, suggest the media remain as determined as…
University of Chicago Stats Professor Cancels Midterm, Pushes Students To Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead
A University of Chicago professor canceled a midterm Thursday and called on his students to use the time to join an anti-Trump protest, an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows. Yali Amit, a statistics professor who has long opposed Israel, told his machine learning and large-scale…
Racial Discrimination Persists at UCLA Medical School as Federal Investigation Is Underway, Documents Show
The Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation in March into the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. The probe, HHS said in a press release, would investigate whether the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race. Less than two weeks…
Radical Transparency: Journalist May Run for Congress (as a Democrat, Obviously)
Hanna Trudo, a journalist who covered the Democratic Party for The Hill, is “exploring” a run for Congress in New Hampshire. It seems redundant to mention that Trudo would be running as a Democrat, but there you have it. Trudo is reportedly eyeing the open seat in New…
Columbia Med Students Condemn University After Classmate Who Stormed Library Returns to Campus
Columbia University medical students accused the Ivy League school of pushing a double standard after a classmate who was suspended following her arrest for storming a Barnard College building returned to campus. The student, Gabrielle Wimer, appears to be on course to graduate later this month. Wimer was…
Weekend Beacon 5/4/25
It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride, to say the least. Many of us wondered if the chaos and uncertainty would ever end. But it did. At long last, Shedeur Sanders was finally drafted in the fifth round by the Cleveland Browns. Not that I was worried—after all,…
Trump Energy Secretary Marks 100 Days at Georgia Factory Saved From Biden’s Green Agenda
GRIFFIN, GA—At first glance, a water heater manufacturing plant may seem like an odd place for Energy Secretary Chris Wright to celebrate the first 100 days of the Trump administration’s energy agenda. Under his leadership, the Energy Department has already bolstered investment in nuclear energy, slashed spending, and…
Harvard Law Review Asked Prospective Editors To Disclose Their Race Days After It Was Hit With Civil Rights Probes
The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was investigating the Harvard Law Review over allegations of race discrimination. Seventy-two hours later, the journal asked prospective editors to disclose their race as part of the application process, writing in an email that it would use this information to…