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  • URGENT: Kristi Noem is out as Secretary of Homeland Security

    Alex Berenson - Mar 5th 2026 2:58pm EST

    Looks like Kristi Noem will have more time to spend with Corey Lewandowski. President Trump just announced Noem is out as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin will replace her. The move comes two months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers killed two American protestors during a disastrous deployment to […]

  • A (highly visual) follow-up to yesterday’s piece on the death of climate change hysteria

    Alex Berenson - Mar 4th 2026 2:03pm EST

    I like a good kicker. I don’t mean Brandon Aubrey (of Dallas Cowboys fame). Kickers are what reporters call an article’s last line or two, ideally offering a punchy end to reward readers who’ve stuck with them. Lots of you seemed to enjoy the kicker to yesterday’s piece on President Trump’s decision to stop pretending […]

  • Decarbonization and climate change hysteria died this winter

    Alex Berenson - Mar 3rd 2026 2:54pm EST

    Last month, President Trump ended the left’s efforts to decarbonize the United States. Notice the massive protests in the streets? Or any protests? Me neither. In December 2009, the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency issued its so-called “endangerment finding,” a ruling that carbon dioxide threatened “current and future generations.” The fact that every human being […]

  • Poll and open thread on the Iran war

    Alex Berenson - Mar 2nd 2026 4:14pm EST

    So far, so good. Whatever one thinks of the Trump administration’s decision to attack Iran without Congressional approval, the war’s first days have gone almost perfectly, aside from the death of four American troops. Any conflict that begins with the obliteration of the enemy’s top leaders is off to a good start. Iran appears unable […]

  • On 1984, part 2: How digital surveillance, cheap propaganda, and AI are making totalitarianism great again

    Alex Berenson - Mar 1st 2026 2:59pm EST

    (SECOND OF TWO PARTS. For the first, on what China’s rise says about 1984, click here.) Information wants to be free. Hard to believe now, but in the Internet’s first days, people believed that slogan. The world’s truths, neatly organized, would be freely and anonymously available to all. Too bad not enough of us asked […]

  • Why you need to (re)read 1984 — ASAP

    Alex Berenson - Feb 27th 2026 11:44am EST

    (FIRST OF TWO PARTS) You’ve read 1984. Even if you haven’t, you think you have. Everyone knows its most famous slogans, testimony to the power of propaganda to warp minds. Big Brother Is Watching. Two Plus Two Equals Five. Freedom Is Slavery. War is Peace. So why take the time to read George Orwell’s novel […]

  • The Talented Mr. Newsom

    Alex Berenson - Feb 25th 2026 6:15pm EST

    California has every natural and economic advantage: a long, beautiful coast, great weather, a generations-long stranglehold on cultural production in Los Angeles and advanced technology in Silicon Valley. Yet years of Democratic misrule have made the state so unlivable its taxpaying residents are fleeing en masse. Building houses, or high-speed rail, or anything else in […]

  • Why are we (close to) attacking Iran?

    Alex Berenson - Feb 20th 2026 12:11pm EST

    We need to talk about Iran. In the last week, with the media focused on the Epstein files and the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the United States has moved an armada towards Iran. Two aircraft carrier groups and guided missile destroyers are now in striking distance. Yet the President has said almost nothing about what […]

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  • Drink coffee! It’s (probably) good for you!

    Alex Berenson - Feb 16th 2026 12:50pm EST

    The best health and nutritional advice is the simplest. Don’t eat too much. Get sunlight. Don’t do drugs. Exercise body and mind. Most of all, don’t believe any one food or medicine is the fountain of youth. Still, every so often, The Science (TM) stumbles on a hopeful nugget (editorial note: can nuggets be hopeful?). […]

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  • On cannabis, psychosis, and the long tail of the truth

    Alex Berenson - Feb 12th 2026 5:47pm EST

    Suddenly warnings about cannabis are everywhere. Last week, researchers reported severe mental illness has spiked in young people in Canada alongside access to high-potency cannabis. The next day came the release of “A Killing In Cannabis,” a book about a 2019 murder in California — and the violence that plagues the marijuana business and that […]

  • 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 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]