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  • I am in Hungary talking about cannabis and the insanity of American drug policy

    Alex Berenson - Nov 19th 2025 5:45pm EST

    If you’re wondering where I’ve been the last few days… In September, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a conservative-leaning Hungarian private university, invited me to speak at a conference on drug prevention in Budapest. It’s a bit of hike, but I’m glad I came. The conference includes some of the few other Americans speaking out against the […]

  • Ralph Baric, the world’s top coronavirus researcher, discussed “human adaptation” of coronaviruses with the CIA before Covid began

    Alex Berenson - Nov 12th 2025 4:38pm EST

    Years before Sars-COV-2 emerged from China, Dr. Ralph Baric — a North Carolina virologist who worked closely with the Chinese lab that is the likely source of the virus — met with American spies to discuss the “human adaptation” of coronaviruses. Emails released by Kentucky senator Rand Paul reveal the meetings, which again raise the […]

  • The war on drugs needs to be fought from the demand side

    Alex Berenson - Nov 10th 2025 4:34pm EST

    Friday, I wrote about the bipartisan morality crisis of America’s leaders. Along the way, I criticized the Trump administration for attacking speedboats it says are moving drugs. Blowing those ships up without warning is murder, I wrote.1 A lot of you think I’m wrong, we should destroy these boats — and their passengers. So. Say […]

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  • Honor still matters

    Alex Berenson - Nov 7th 2025 3:15pm EST

    Yesterday, I had the chance to visit West Point with a Special Forces officer. The officer, an Unreported Truths reader, was back for a reunion and reached out to offer me a tour. I gladly agreed. I’ve been to West Point before, but never alongside an active-duty officer. The United States Military Academy is beautiful […]

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  • Why do so many Americans feel so financially stressed when the overall economy is strong?

    Alex Berenson - Nov 6th 2025 7:01pm EST

    By most measures, the American economy is in excellent shape. America’s economic output is now about $30 trillion — $85,000 per person, far more than other big countries. The United States still accounts for one-quarter of the world’s total output, the same share as 35 years ago. China’s rise has come mostly at the expense […]

  • How much of a role did inflation play in the Republican defeats on Tuesday?

    Alex Berenson - Nov 6th 2025 12:16pm EST

    How bad is inflation? And how much of a role did rising prices play in the spanking Republicans received two days ago? Official statistics put inflation at 3 percent annually in September. But many Unreported Truths readers feel inflation is much worse — and believe voter anger over it and President Trump’s apparent indifference to […]

  • Will Republicans heed last night’s election results?

    Alex Berenson - Nov 5th 2025 11:12am EST

    An alarm rang for Republicans and Donald Trump last night. Are they self-aware enough to hear it? The Democratic Party is bleeding. But yesterday Democrats easily won governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey – and every close race in the Virginia legislature. On X, the excuses from the right are flowing: these are just […]

  • POLL: Should I take a break from nonfiction to write another John Wells novel?

    Alex Berenson - Nov 3rd 2025 2:20pm EST

    Before Unreported Truths, there was John Wells. In 2006, Random House published The Faithful Spy, my debut novel, featuring the story of John Wells, an American CIA operative under deep cover in Afghanistan. In 2007, it won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel – still my only real writing prize. It’s no lie to […]

  • A retired doctor explains the US medical crisis

    Alex Berenson - Nov 3rd 2025 10:41am EST

    I wrote last night on X that I’m starting to wonder if the American medical system may face financial collapse. The cost of private health insurance is becoming unsustainable, up to $50,000 a year in high-cost states (you read that right). More coming on that soon. But cost is only part of the problem. The […]

  • Your thoughts on the insanity of building hospitals that look like five-star hotels

    Alex Berenson - Nov 1st 2025 3:14pm EDT

    It’s a guarantee, a lead-pipe lock: when I write about the American healthcare crisis, UT readers will fill my in-box with detailed, thoughtful notes about their experiences. That’s exactly what happened after yesterday’s piece about a hugely expensive outpatient surgery center that just opened in Miami – a building that reveals the perverse priorities of […]

  • Why a seven-story glass building in North Miami forced the government to shut down

    Alex Berenson - Oct 31st 2025 3:03pm EDT

    It’s a nice building. A very nice building. In September, the University of Miami Health System opened an outpatient medical center in North Miami, part of a $4 billion development project called “SoLé Mia.” Last week, the building got a lot of attention on X. Sadly, it was the wrong kind. A heart surgeon at […]

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  • Could mRNA Covid shots help cancer patients?

    Alex Berenson - Oct 29th 2025 4:55pm EDT

    Since the mRNA Covid vaccines first began to fail in mid-2021, they’ve faced a long stream of bad news, from myocarditis to booster ineffectiveness. But the black parade seemingly ended last week, when Nature published research suggesting some cancer patients who received the jabs outlived those who did not. On cue, the Washington Post ran […]

  • A counterpoint on Kamala Harris

    Alex Berenson - Oct 28th 2025 6:26pm EDT

    In writing about about Kamala Harris’s memoir and her failed campaign since Sunday, I wanted to make the point that her loss really was not about her own problems as a campaigner. Like it or not, she debated Donald Trump to a draw, as the pills clearly showed. Yet despite the structural campaign advantages Democrats […]

  • Part 2: Kamala Harris’s road to nowhere

    Alex Berenson - Oct 28th 2025 12:50pm EDT

    (Second of two parts; Part 1 here.) Lots of pundits have offered lots of theories as to why Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump, despite vastly outspending him and receiving massive legacy media help. But a few words from Harris herself offer the truest explanation for her defeat. They come early in her memoir, 107 […]

  • Kamala Harris still has no idea why she lost to Donald Trump

    Alex Berenson - Oct 26th 2025 11:56am EDT

    (PART ONE OF TWO) The Democrats are in even more trouble than anyone thinks. Since last November, the left has eagerly sought excuses for Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump. With “Russian collusion” off the table, the post-mortems have focused on Harris’s supposed flaws as a candidate or the theory that — as Bernie Sanders […]

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  • Why woke women make terrible leaders

    Alex Berenson - Oct 22nd 2025 4:52pm EDT

    Wir schaffen das! In English, the words mean: We can do this! So said Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor from 2005 to 2021, as she hectored her citizens to accept 2 million refugees from Syria and other Muslim countries. Observe, though: as calls to action go, Merkel’s was watery. Not: “we must do this” — a […]

  • Quick update

    Alex Berenson - Oct 20th 2025 12:14pm EDT

    James Lawrence and I spent much of last week discussing an appeal of Berenson v Biden. The deadline to ask the Second Circuit to rehear Judge Jessica G.L. Clarke’s dismissal of the case is fast approaching. More coming on our next moves soon. Even more exciting, I have a couple of other and longer pieces […]

  • A speech worth reading

    Alex Berenson - Oct 13th 2025 12:47pm EDT

    This weekend, my daughter Lucy read Torah in a synagogue in Beacon, a New York town about 60 miles north of Manhattan. This process is known as being bat mitzvahed1 and marks adulthood for Jews. A bat mitzvah is no longer a child and is accountable for her actions. (In theory, anyway.) — (Paying the […]

  • Do you know firsthand of anyone who has had a health crisis after getting the new Covid mRNA booster?

    Alex Berenson - Oct 12th 2025 12:02pm EDT

    I have heard this weekend from two people who have had immediate family members who were older but generally healthy – and had serious health crises shortly after receiving the new Covid-19 booster. (To be blunt, one died – “died suddenly,” in fact, a term I haven’t heard in a while.) As the old line […]

  • My opening statement to the Senate Commerce Committee on Berenson v Biden and federal social media censorship

    Alex Berenson - Oct 8th 2025 10:35am EDT

    Chairman Cruz, committee members, thank you for giving me the chance to speak on this crucial topic. On Aug. 28, 2021, Twitter (as it was then called) permanently suspended my account, supposedly for violating its “COVID-19 misinformation rules.” The ban deprived me of the largest and most vital platform for my journalism – at a […]

  • Mr. Berenson Goes to Washington

    Alex Berenson - Oct 7th 2025 1:23pm EDT

    It only took four years. And two lawsuits, which so many of you graciously supported. And two rounds of help from Elon Musk. And a perfectly timed article from the indispensable Matt Taibbi. — (And all of you — from monthly members to founding members. I couldn’t do this without you. And I am so […]

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  • RESENDING: On psychosis, cannabis, race, and violence

    Alex Berenson - Oct 4th 2025 3:06pm EDT

    (NOTE TO READERS: THIS PIECE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT IN THE SUBSTACK PUBLISHING ENGINE. NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED, BUT I APOLOGIZE FOR THE MULTIPLE SENDS. IF YOU CHOOSE TO COMMENT, PLEASE DO SO ON THIS VERSION.) Once again, the crime is awful. On Dec. 7, 2015, Ronald Exantus broke into the Kentucky home of […]

  • (EDITED with correct first name, read this one): On cannabis, psychosis, race, and violence

    Alex Berenson - Oct 4th 2025 1:57pm EDT

    Once again, the crime is awful. On Dec. 7, 2015, Ronald Exantus broke into the Kentucky home of six-year-old Logan Tipton and stabbed Logan to death as he screamed. The killing was random. Exantus had never met Logan or his family before. Now — not even a decade later — Exantus has been released from […]

  • URGENT: Children had a HIGHER risk of long-term problems after a Covid infection if they’d received an mRNA shot

    Alex Berenson - Oct 3rd 2025 6:06pm EDT

    mRNA Covid jabs are linked to a higher risk of several serious conditions — including acute kidney injury — in children following Covid infections, according to data hidden deep in the appendix of a major new study on kids and Covid. The study was published in the Lancet on Monday, but its researchers did not […]

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  • Tylenol is not the reason autism diagnoses have exploded

    Alex Berenson - Oct 1st 2025 4:30pm EDT

    Can we all calm down about Tylenol? Since President Trump blamed Tylenol – the trade name for acetaminophen – for rising autism diagnoses and told pregnant women not to use it, the drug has become the latest flashpoint in America’s cultural and political wars. First things first. Tylenol is a lousy drug. It’s sold over-the-counter […]