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  • On the dangers of cosplay

    Alex Berenson - Jan 11th 2026 9:21am EST

    It was a small mistake Sometimes that’s all it takes Once upon a time in the Iraqi desert, north of the Shia city of Najaf, I found myself listening on repeat to the lyrics of “From a Balance Beam,” by Bright Eyes. It was a small mistake Sometimes that’s all it takes It was a […]

  • GUEST POST: We cannot hate Purdue Pharma or the Sackler family, which owned it, enough

    Alex Berenson - Jan 10th 2026 11:06am EST

    Editor’s note: Dr. Matt Bivens — a reporter turned emergency medicine physician — has been chronicling the opioid catastrophe for his Substack, The 100 Days. Yesterday, he wrote about the end of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case, explaining how aggressively and cynically Purdue hooked patients. You probably know the broad story already. After all, (good) […]

  • Medicaid fraud and abuse are hitting unthinkable levels

    Alex Berenson - Jan 9th 2026 4:27pm EST

    With Medicaid spending now over $1 trillion a year, the program’s fraud and abuse are exploding. The latest example comes from Indiana. In 2017, the state’s Medicaid program spent $21 million on behavioral therapy for autistic kids. By 2023, that spending had risen 30-fold, to over $600 million. Indiana spent even more per capita on […]

  • Zohran Mamdani WILL freeze the rent (on World Cup tickets!)

    Alex Berenson - Jan 6th 2026 2:00pm EST

    SPECIAL BONUS ARTICLE FOR PAID UT SUBSCRIBERS ONLY! JOIN HERE! — Is Zohran Kwame Mamdani really this misinformed about how capitalism works? New York City is about to find out. The 34-year-old Mamdani has been grabbing headlines since becoming New York’s mayor last week. In his inaugural speech, Mamdani promised to “replace the frigidity of […]

  • URGENT: As fraud allegations spiral, Minnesota governor Tim Walz quits his reelection bid

    Alex Berenson - Jan 5th 2026 11:07am EST

    X for the win. Just 10 days ago, a 23-year-old citizen journalist named Nick Shirley posted a video of empty state-funded “daycare centers” run by Somali immigrants across Minnesota. Abuse of government programs by Somalis in Minnesota is not a new story. Yet the video became a national sensation. Shirley captured the brazenness of the […]

  • 2.7 million Spanish children and teenagers. ZERO Covid deaths.

    Alex Berenson - Jan 3rd 2026 4:57pm EST

    Another slow news day, huh? Contrary to what my critics like to think, I try not to weigh in just for the fun of it. (When I do, I often regret it later.) I prefer having expertise, new facts, or ideally both. So I’ll skip writing about the arrest of Venezuela’s president Nicholas Maduro, except […]

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  • Just how insane did Democrats become on immigration?

    Alex Berenson - Jan 1st 2026 1:04pm EST

    Almost six years ago, Democrats published the world’s longest political suicide note — their 2020 election platform on immigration. CREATING A 21ST CENTURY IMMIGRATION SYSTEM has now vanished from the Democratic Party Website. But the Internet is forever, and the archived document remains easily findable. It makes a fascinating read. In almost 2,000 words, the […]

  • Somalis gonna Somali

    Alex Berenson - Dec 30th 2025 3:36pm EST

    Nairobi, Kenya, December 2011: I am in Kenya to research my seventh John Wells novel, The Night Ranger. Wells is chasing American missionaries taken into the bush by Somali mercenaries. It’s a change of pace for him, lower stakes than his usual. It will turn out to be one of my favorite novels. I have […]

  • It’s not just Minnesota. Or just daycares. The deepest government honeypot is blue-state Medicaid.

    Alex Berenson - Dec 29th 2025 2:55pm EST

    (A belated Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and thanks for giving me last week off.) You’ve seen the video. Nick Shirley, a citizen journalist (aka a journalist), traveled around Minnesota looking for fraud at state-funded daycare centers largely run by Somali immigrants. He found obvious evidence of malfeasance — and a worldwide audience on X. Shirley’s […]

  • America – and Americans – must stand against drugs of abuse. ALL drugs of abuse.

    Alex Berenson - Dec 19th 2025 2:46pm EST

    Today, I debate cannabis legalization at AmericaFest 2025, the annual convention for Turning Point USA, the group led by Charlie Kirk until his assassination in September. Here’s my opening argument: My opponent this afternoon is Katherine Mangu-Ward, the editor-in-chief of Reason magazine and a staunch libertarian. Katherine’s pinned post on X calls for the legalization […]

  • URGENT: President Trump just ordered the federal government to relax rules on cannabis

    Alex Berenson - Dec 18th 2025 2:13pm EST

    As I write this, President Donald Trump has just signed an order requiring the Drug Enforcement Administration to move cannabis from Schedule 1, the most dangerous category of controlled substances, to Schedule 3. The decision to reschedule is very disappointing. The reason cannabis is considered a Schedule 1 substance is not that it is as […]

  • If you’re wondering where I’ve been…

    Alex Berenson - Dec 17th 2025 4:52pm EST

    So much news lately: the fight over the Hepatitis B vaccine; the killings of Rob and Michelle Reiner, apparently by their drug-addled son…. And I haven’t written about any of it. This is partly because I have been traveling a lot; I am now in Phoenix for the Turning Point USA annual conference, where I […]

  • The Atlantic admits Covid shots killed kids – five years too late

    Alex Berenson - Dec 10th 2025 8:16pm EST

    If it’s authorized for children, children should get it too. — The Atlantic magazine, writing about the mRNA Covid vaccine in April 2021 (in an article about me called “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man”) Yes, Some Children May Have Died From COVID Shots — The Atlantic, December 2025 Finally, much too late, a few vaccine fanatics […]

  • On the cesspool of elite journalism

    Alex Berenson - Dec 9th 2025 4:30pm EST

    Last week, a 32-year-old magazine writer named Olivia Nuzzi released a memoir about her decade covering Donald Trump – and year sexting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The memoir, American Canto, isn’t good, to say the least. It’s draggy, circuitious, hard to read. It’s received scathing reviews complaining Nuzzi is a bad writer. But Nuzzi isn’t […]

  • On the cesspool of elite journalism

    Alex Berenson - Dec 9th 2025 4:30pm EST

    Last week, a 32-year-old magazine writer named Olivia Nuzzi released a memoir about her decade covering Donald Trump – and year sexting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The memoir, American Canto, isn’t good, to say the least. It’s draggy, circuitious, hard to read. It’s received scathing reviews complaining Nuzzi is a bad writer. But Nuzzi isn’t […]

  • On Batman – and being a citizen of a free republic

    Alex Berenson - Dec 8th 2025 5:35pm EST

    Why so serious? Last week, flying to Qatar (more on that later), I rewatched The Dark Knight. If you haven’t seen it, or have forgotten it, you should too. It presages our growing political nihilism in a way that is almost painful. The Dark Knight is based on the Batman series, of course. But calling […]

  • BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: The FDA may add a strict “black box” warning on mRNA Covid shots for kids and teens.

    Alex Berenson - Dec 1st 2025 12:37pm EST

    BREAKING The Food and Drug Administration may soon place a so-called “black box” warning on mRNA Covid vaccines to alert physicians and parents of their link to childhood deaths. A black box warning is the strictest the agency can impose. It is generally the last step the agency takes before forcing a manufacturer to stop […]

  • URGENT: mRNA Covid jabs should NEVER have been approved for children or young adults

    Alex Berenson - Nov 30th 2025 10:35am EST

    I will have more to say soon about the Food and Drug Administration report confirming the mRNA Covid shots killed kids, but I want to make this clear: The companies knew mRNAs didn’t work for kids and had serious and even deadly side effects. They knew because that’s what their own trial data showed. They […]

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  • BREAKING/URGENT: mRNA COVID VACCINES KILLED AT LEAST 10 KIDS, THE FDA REPORTS

    Alex Berenson - Nov 29th 2025 1:03pm EST

    BREAKING: Food and Drug Administration scientists have found Covid mRNA jabs killed at least 10 children, the FDA’s chief vaccine regulator told staffers Friday. The real number of children and teenagers killed by mRNA vaccines is likely much higher, Dr. Vinay Prasad – wrote in a six-page note to staffers. After looking at 96 deaths […]

  • Happy Thanksgiving! (And I hope you will take advantage of this holiday discount and support UT!)

    Alex Berenson - Nov 27th 2025 10:03am EST

    Happy Thanksgiving to every Unreported Truths reader, whether you live in a country that celebrates the holiday or not. I am thankful for many, many things, most importantly that my kids are healthy and (usually) happy. I am thankful to live in a democracy where I can work and live and pray as I please. […]

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  • VERY URGENT: Pfizer’s mRNA flu shot failed its pivotal clinical trial in adults 65 and older

    Alex Berenson - Nov 26th 2025 1:33pm EST

    Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine for influenza failed when tested against the standard flu shot in a 27,000-person trial of older adults — a failure Pfizer has not announced for years. Almost three times as many people who received the mRNA shot suffered acute respiratory failure or major kidney problems. More died, too. Overall, mRNA patients were […]

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  • On the perverse incentives driving social media’s loudest voices

    Alex Berenson - Nov 25th 2025 2:49pm EST

    I don’t want the gatekeepers back. I’m the last person to want the gatekeepers back. The legacy media gatekeepers tried to hammer me into silence in 20201. They failed. By 2021 they were so frustrated that they cheered when the White House and Pfizer made Twitter ban me. In a meta-irony, since then they have […]

  • What do YOU think of Donald Trump’s 2025?

    Alex Berenson - Nov 24th 2025 10:47am EST

    Last night, a reader wrote in to offer President Trump an unsolicited “D-” for his work: A D-, not an F only because Trump gets a good amount of credit for immigration. Trump is what he is, a showman, and nothing else. Lots of glittering generalities – nothing of substance. — This reader is no […]

  • Our elites are so mediocre

    Alex Berenson - Nov 23rd 2025 11:32am EST

    Every time I read about another rich guy cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein, I flash to 2020. That may seem strange. Hear me out. You may vaguely recall I didn’t like Covid lockdowns – and said so once or twice. Some people disagreed. Journalists sure did. But journalists lean hard left (by lean I mean […]

  • It did happen here

    Alex Berenson - Nov 22nd 2025 10:45am EST

    The Old Town of Munich — the Aldstadt — isn’t very old. The American and British World War 2 air raids here were not as deadly as those on Dresden or Berlin. Still, they destroyed 70 percent of Munich. Most buildings in the Aldstadt are post-war reconstructions. As they should be. As Abraham Lincoln said […]