The Harvard Law Review has removed all references to race and gender from the essay prompt used to evaluate prospective editors, the latest sign that the journal is on the back foot following a wave of investigations and funding cuts by the Trump administration. The journal told prospective editors on…
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No sympathy for Joe Biden (or Jake Tapper)
Biden gets cancer after promising to cure it. Meet the loyal henchman who helped Dr. Jill run the country. How aides helped Kamala Harris practice mingling authentically. Why liberal freaks think exercise is worse than Hitler. It’s Friday, May 23, 2025 Joe Biden has prostate cancer. He revealed…
Suspected Israeli Embassy Shooter Worked for Woke Education Group Backed by Ford, MacArthur Foundations
The 30-year-old suspect in the slaying of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., was, until the middle of 2024, an employee of a left-wing nonprofit underwritten by some of the country’s largest philanthropic foundations that claims to be devoted to chronicling the lives of “historically significant Black…
From Million-Dollar Homes to Radical Activism—These Posh Private School Alumni Were Among the Arrested Columbia and Barnard Students
Emma Biswas grew up in a life of luxury. She led the robotics team at the Harker School, which bills itself as one of the nation’s top college prep schools and where tuition can reach $65,000. While there, she interned with a biotech company that boasts, “Prospective Nobel…
Names and Faces: Here’s Who Was Actually Running the Country When Joe Biden Was ‘President’
Recent books about the 2024 election, including the just-published Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, have made clear what was obvious to most Americans with eyes and ears: Joe Biden was not fit to serve…
The Tapper Dossier: How the CNN ‘Journalist’ Covered (Up) the Biden Cover-Up—Before Writing a Best-Selling Book About It
CNN host Jake Tapper has been under fire since announcing he was writing a book about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the extensive “cover-up” to convince American voters they were too dumb to see what was happening with their own two eyes. Many have pointed out that…
Bloomberg Journalist Among Anti-Israel Radicals Arrested for Storming Columbia Library
Bloomberg journalist Jason Kao was among those arrested at Columbia University during a violent takeover of the school’s Butler Library earlier this month, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Kao, a graphics reporter for the news outlet and Columbia alumnus, was one of the 81 radicals collared at the library…
CAIR Leader Who Serves on California State Civil Rights Panel Cheers Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis, Says Trump’s ‘Time Will Come’
An official with the anti-Israel Council on American-Islamic Relations who also serves on a California state civil rights board is cheering former president Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and expressed hope that President Donald Trump’s “time will come too,” citing the presidents’ stances on Israel’s war against Hamas. Zahra…
Owner of Trump’s Qatari Air Force One Linked to Bob Menendez Corruption Scandal
The owner of the Qatari plane that may soon serve as President Donald Trump’s Air Force One, Qatari royal and former prime minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani (HBJ), is linked to the bribery case involving former senator Bob Menendez. HBJ uses jets with tail numbers P4-HBJ and…
Weekend Beacon 5/18/25
Belated congratulations to the former cardinal Robert Prevost on becoming the first American pope, Leo XIV. Considered a long shot, His Holiness benefited from a little-known Vatican affirmative action plan aimed at his minority group—White Sox fans. Speaking of affirmative action, Jason Riley is out with a new book, The Affirmative Action…
WATCH: Democrats Who Praised Joe Biden’s Mental ‘Sharpness’ Don’t Want to ‘Rehash the Past’
Democrats insisted for years that Joe Biden was mentally “sharp.” Many did so right up to the moment of his disastrous debate on CNN, which made it impossible to deny his cognitive decline. Recent books about the 2024 election have raised alarming questions about the extent to which…
Breaking news: Joe Biden might be senile, sources allege
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…
‘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…