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  • A line I can’t cross – even to keep subscribers

    Alex Berenson - Feb 1st 2026 11:39am EST

    On Friday, after writing about the bizarre decision that Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty, I received an email from a reader explaining why he’s quit paying for Unreported Truths after years of subscribing: Thought I would communicate why I am no longer a paid subscriber. I used to pay and now I […]

  • Luigi Mangione won’t face the death penalty

    Alex Berenson - Jan 30th 2026 5:23pm EST

    From the start, the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson unleashed a nasty strain of victim-blaming. Within hours of Thompson’s assassination on a Manhattan street in December 2024, leftists on X joked about “preexisting conditions,” suggesting his job running a health insurance company somehow justified his death. When police in Pennsylvania arrested Luigi Mangione […]

  • More Americans now worry about paying for healthcare than housing or anything else

    Alex Berenson - Jan 29th 2026 3:33pm EST

    The top financial worry for Americans is no longer housing, food, or transportation. It’s medicine. A poll out today from KFF, a health policy group, finds 32 percent of Americans are “very worried” about paying for healthcare for themselves and their families. Another 34 percent are “somewhat worried.” Only 12 percent said they aren’t worried […]

  • More evidence from coast to coast that American medicine may be on an unsustainable path

    Alex Berenson - Jan 28th 2026 5:10pm EST

    You’ve heard billionaires are leaving California over a ballot proposal that if passed this November will make them pay the state 5 percent of everything they own.1 What has gotten less attention is where the wealth tax is supposed to go: to support the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal.2 Medicaid spending has jumped 25 percent statewide […]

  • More evidence from coast to coast that American medicine may be on an unsustainable path

    Alex Berenson - Jan 28th 2026 5:10pm EST

    You’ve heard billionaires are leaving California over a ballot proposal that if passed this November will make them pay the state 5 percent of everything they own.1 What has gotten less attention is where the wealth tax is supposed to go: to support the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal.2 Medicaid spending has jumped 25 percent statewide […]

  • ICE is melting

    Alex Berenson - Jan 28th 2026 8:06am EST

    Here’s an immigration story the United States should be discussing: California spent the Biden years enrolling illegal migrants into its Medicaid program without any eligibility restrictions except income. Through the state’s Medi-Cal program, Americans now pay almost $10 billion a year to cover healthcare for 1.6 million people who aren’t even legally in California. Here’s […]

  • Doctors speak out about the crisis in medicine

    Alex Berenson - Jan 25th 2026 12:44pm EST

    A few days ago, I wrote, “If you like everything I write, I’m doing something wrong.” Still, it’s fair to say Thursday’s article about my disastrous primary care visit struck a nerve. The emails keep flooding in. Instead of attaboys (or commiseration), I’ve decided to run four notes from physicians who see the system’s crisis […]

  • The crisis in American medicine runs DEEP

    Alex Berenson - Jan 23rd 2026 11:07am EST

    Some articles land hard. Yesterday’s piece about my disappointing primary care visit was one. You have already offered hundreds of comments and emails with your own experiences. Many came from doctors — Unreported Truths has become a place (let’s not it call it a safe space) where physicians can vent to each other and engaged […]

  • How can American medicine be this bad?

    Alex Berenson - Jan 22nd 2026 3:51pm EST

    I don’t see doctors much. You may recall I had back surgery two years ago (a complete success, except my drop foot never recovered, ugh). For checkups I went every couple years to an old-school guy in Manhattan. He was a hematologist-oncologist who offered primary care out of a solo practice in a little office […]

  • On the dangers of audience capture in new – and old – media

    Alex Berenson - Jan 16th 2026 2:15pm EST

    If you like everything I write, I’m doing something wrong. I try not to think too much about the media landscape (actual journalism is much more interesting). But your response to Wednesday’s piece about the anti-ICE protests struck me. I suggested comparing them to civil rights protests is foolish. A lot of you liked that […]

  • The reckoning on immigration is here

    Alex Berenson - Jan 15th 2026 4:14pm EST

    The easy part is over. Americans wanted the borders closed. For decades, the legacy media and politicians in both parties ignored that wish, claiming the United States had to accept and support an endless flood of illegal migrants. The disconnect between average people and elite opinion was so obvious that academics wrote papers about it. […]

  • Why the anti-ICE protests are so ugly

    Alex Berenson - Jan 14th 2026 11:59am EST

    (Again, so many stories I want to write – AND I have to finish and set for printing on Amazon the fatherhood manifesto I promised in December – but the death of Renee Good highlights a crucial conceptual question that must be addressed: what do the anti-ICE protestors want to accomplish?) — The arc of […]

  • Iran has fallen*

    Alex Berenson - Jan 13th 2026 4:17pm EST

    Last week, a friend asked what I thought about the protests in Iran, which anti-Iranian accounts on X were hyping heavily. Probably overstated, I said. The Islamic regime has faced repeated protests since 2009. Each time, security forces responded with violence from tear gas to bone-breaking assaults to rooftop snipers. Dozens of demonstators died, and […]

  • 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 […]