The Illinois Board of Higher Education runs a scholarship program for graduate students that explicitly excludes white applicants, a move lawyers say is unconstitutional and could jeopardize the federal funding of more than two dozen participating universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.| freebeacon.com
Man is a ranking animal. He is not content for there to be a multiplicity of greats, all of roughly equal worth. No, there must be a No. 1, a No. 2, a No. 3… Man must rank.| freebeacon.com
The nation's largest teachers' union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references "victims of the Holocaust from different faiths" and teaches that Israel was founded through "forced, violent displacement and dispossession," its most recent guide for members shows.| freebeacon.com
The Trump administration told Harvard University’s accreditor that the Ivy League school failed to protect Jewish students, a violation of civil rights laws, putting its status at risk.| freebeacon.com
When someone emerges from a challenging childhood to become a successful adult and writes a memoir about the experience, one of two narratives usually emerges: The first, and most lucrative in today’s market, is what might be called the "wallowing" narrative. Such books settle personal and familial scores; recount excessive drug use, promiscuity, and other poor life choices; and leave readers with a voyeurism hangover.| freebeacon.com
Lawyers for President Donald Trump and CBS News parent company Paramount said Monday that they have reached an "advanced" stage in their settlement talks over Trump's lawsuit that accuses CBS's flagship news program of election interference, with the New York Times reporting that "the filing is the clearest sign yet that the two sides are nearing a settlement."| freebeacon.com
When Sylvia Plath appears on college syllabi today, what follows is depressingly predictable: She becomes either a martyr for patriarchy or a case study in mental instability. What’s lost in this ideological tug-of-war is any serious consideration of her formidable craftsmanship. Sarah Ruden’s incisive study of Plath, I Am the Arrow: The Life & Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems, aims to correct this imbalance, redirecting our attention from biography to artistry with the precision of an ar...| freebeacon.com
Monitoring the situation: Israeli defense minister Israel Katz delivered a confidential briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday night, telling them "that Israel and the United States are prepared to resume strikes on Iran if the regime attempts to rebuild its nuclear or ballistic missile programs," the Free Beacon's Andrew Tobin reports from Tel Aviv.| freebeacon.com
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday praised Zohran Mamdani following his Democratic primary victory in New York City's mayoral race, saying that Mamdani's socialist campaign—which includes proposals such as government-run grocery stores—resonated with voters.| freebeacon.com
Ninety percent of President Donald Trump's voters support the U.S. strikes that decimated Iran's nuclear program, according to a new poll, undercutting media claims that the attack set off a "MAGA civil war."| freebeacon.com
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department posted and then removed a statement expressing condolences over the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities, which President Donald Trump ordered to stop the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons.| freebeacon.com
TEL AVIV—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was "very, very close" to achieving its war goals following U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities the previous night. But, he emphasized, "We are not done."| freebeacon.com
President Donald Trump will decide at some time within the "next two weeks" whether the United States attacks Iran, the White House said Thursday after the president and his national security team gathered for a meeting in the Situation Room.| freebeacon.com
A Democratic state lawmaker in Colorado resigned Sunday, weeks after facing felony charges alleging she falsified her residency in order to run in her district again following last year's redistricting. Prosecutors say Tracey Bernett, who represented part of Boulder County in the Colorado House of Representatives, lied in sworn documents when she said she lived […]| freebeacon.com
Foreign students and professors have played a leading role in fomenting pro-terror and anti-Semitic demonstrations on U.S. college campuses. Now, many of them could face federal investigation or deportation following an executive order from President Donald Trump that calls on federal agencies to identify foreign "Hamas sympathizers on college campuses."| freebeacon.com
A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a "die in" protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas. The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the student saying "don’t grab me" and "don’t touch my neck" as protesters surround him, blocking his view and their own faces with keffiyehs. Eventually, the student tells them, "I live here," as he tries to make his way through the crowd. "...| freebeacon.com
SINGAPORE—City states have largely disappeared from world politics. Over the centuries, technological and economic advances made great powers rich and strong enough to impose their will far away from their home territories, so there are few places left in the world valuable enough for a free city to thrive and not succumb to foreign domination. Today’s few independent cities generally owe their success to an imperial patron’s protection, and Singapore is no exception. It exists largely ...| freebeacon.com
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) said Thursday that she now opposes an electric vehicle battery plant project tied to the Chinese Communist Party, after avoiding taking a position on it for years and signing a hush agreement to participate in negotiations about it.| freebeacon.com
The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on the Tucker Carlson Show that Winston Churchill "was the chief villain of World War II," which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely.| freebeacon.com
Democratic senator Bob Casey has criticized Republican challenger Dave McCormick over his past role at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. But Casey spoke highly of the investment firm's offerings when he served as a top Pennsylvania official overseeing the commonwealth’s pension funds, which brought on Bridgewater to great benefit "both to retirees and to our economy as a whole," according to Casey.| freebeacon.com
California lawmakers and former police officers who served during Kamala Harris’s tenure as a Golden State prosecutor called out the vice president for presenting herself as a “tough on drugs” prosecutor, saying her record tells a different story.| freebeacon.com
Ukraine's bold incursion into the Kursk region of Russia on August 6 has—as one correspondent covering the conflict described—"upend[ed] assumptions" about Russia's capacity to continue prosecuting this war.| freebeacon.com
In a surprise switch, Hunter Biden said Thursday he plans to plead guilty in his tax evasion trial, in which he is charged with failing to pay over a million dollars in federal taxes while spending lavishly on drugs, escorts, and luxury hotels.| freebeacon.com
Harvard University has refused to cooperate with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office's investigation into the assault of an Israeli business school student that occurred during a protest in October 2023. That decision has delayed the ongoing criminal case against two of the students caught on camera accosting their Jewish classmate, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.| freebeacon.com
As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing.| freebeacon.com
Harvard University president Claudine Gay was hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism on Monday in a complaint filed with the university, breathing fresh life into a scandal that has embroiled her nascent presidency and pushing the total number of allegations near 50. Seven of Gay’s 17 published works have already been impacted by the scandal, but the new charges, which have not been previously reported, extend into an eighth: In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of mat...| freebeacon.com
