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  • Journalism is dead, long live journalism

    Alex Berenson - Feb 10th 2026 2:12pm EST

    On Monday afternoon, I got two emails from Matt Taibbi’s Racket News. The first was from Matt and called “From The Old Editor.” The second was from Emily Kopp and called “From The New Editor.” Yes, Matt has hired Emily, who has done amazing work over the last several years unearthing the truth about Covid […]

  • On the open-borders insanity of the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show

    Alex Berenson - Feb 9th 2026 1:02pm EST

    Before last night, I didn’t much care that the Puerto Rican rapper Benito Ocasio, who goes by “Bad Bunny,” would headline the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The right’s annoyance over his plans to sing in Spanish seemed manufactured. He’s a huge star, and parsing rap lyrics is next-to-impossible anyway. And though his views on immigration […]

  • On the open-borders insanity of the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show

    Alex Berenson - Feb 9th 2026 1:02pm EST

    Before last night, I didn’t much care that the Puerto Rican rapper Benito Ocasio, who goes by “Bad Bunny,” would headline the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The right’s annoyance over his plans to sing in Spanish seemed manufactured. He’s a huge star, and parsing rap lyrics is next-to-impossible anyway. And though his views on immigration […]

  • On the chronicle of a life wasted

    Alex Berenson - Feb 6th 2026 5:24pm EST

    Realizing what isn’t in the Epstein files takes a while.1 The big names grab attention, especially the tech moguls in the early 2010s. At the time, Epstein hoped to leverage relationships with Bill Gates and Peter Thiel to return to respectability after his 2008 conviction for soliciting underage girls. References to Donald Trump and Bill […]

  • On the Epstein files, Dr. Peter Attia, and the difference between cancel culture and reasonable moral expectations

    Alex Berenson - Feb 4th 2026 1:40pm EST

    When does lousy personal behavior become a public concern? Put another way: What do we do with scumbags? Especially if they’re public figures? As you know, the Department of Justice has released millions of records it compiled during its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by hanging in a New York jail […]

  • On the Epstein files, Dr. Peter Attia, and the difference between cancel culture and reasonable moral expectations

    Alex Berenson - Feb 4th 2026 1:40pm EST

    When does lousy personal behavior become a public concern? Put another way: What do we do with scumbags? Especially if they’re public figures? As you know, the Department of Justice has released millions of records it compiled during its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by hanging in a New York jail […]

  • 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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