Vibe Shift: Self-Awareness Triumphs at Columbia

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.

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Abdul El-Sayed Billed County Taxpayers $9,000 a Month in ‘Consulting’ Fees While Running for Senate

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.

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New York Times Co. Saved $45 Million With Tax Break It Faults Meta for Using

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 development tax credit it is complaining that Meta is using.

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More Than Half the Names on Committee to Protect Journalists List of Slain Gaza Journalists Are Still Linked to Terror Outfits Despite Group’s Self-Policing ‘Audit’

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 database, according to a leading media watchdog.

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Colorado Dem Manny Rutinel, Running in a District Where Ranching Is Central, Once Said His ‘Entire’ Job Was To Sue Meat Corporations ‘For All They’re Worth’

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."

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Bob Brooks Was in Trouble Over Unpaid Credit Cards and ‘Bilking His In-Laws’: He Didn’t Disclose It When He Applied for a COVID Loan for His Lawn Care Business

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 another one pending for bilking his former in-laws out of $130,000, the Washington Free Beacon has found.

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Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claims He ‘Erased’ $700 Million in Medical Debt: The Truth Is Far More Modest

"$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."

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‘A Nation Like a Lion’—Israeli Airline Passenger Heroics Avert Jihadist Terrorist Attack

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.

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Iowa Democratic Senate Hopeful Josh Turek Skips Vote Aimed at Treating Cancer-Causing Water for Schumer-Aligned Group’s Event

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 aligned with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.).

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NYC’s First Lady Is ‘In Residence’ at Israel-Hating Islamic Wellness Retreat in Portuguese Castle: Organizers Called for Abolishing Israel, ‘Cleansing’ It of Jews

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.

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