Editor’s Note: On Thursday, the Washington Free Beacon published a piece about a police report that details a harassing phone call Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D., N.M.) made to his former employer while enrolled at New Mexico State University. According to the report, Vasquez was fired from a call center in Las Cruces for falsifying data
Embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi has repeatedly claimed to have had a “limited” role at a think tank known for anti-Semitic rhetoric and affiliation with convicted terrorists. The group’s executive director had a different perspective. Mangi, the nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, has said his advisory board position at the Rutgers
“We’re back, bitches.” That is how student protesters at Columbia University announced the return of an anti-Israel encampment on the school’s main lawn, coinciding with the school’s alumni reunions, which took place over the weekend. A sign declaring, “We’re back bitches,” greeted alumni returning to campus for their class reunions, as students pitched tents and
Is therapy good for you? Many people have benefited from it, and the word itself, from the Greek, therapeia, means “healing.” But what happens when the effort to heal extends beyond necessity? Or when a focus on trauma stunts the development of resiliency? Or when families raise children to believe that the normal slings and
The divorce memoir is a curious subgenre. It’s a survival narrative with a twist. The author is alive but the marriage is dead. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz is something else as well: a diatribe against the whole institution of heterosexual marriage. But whether it
When mom asked for my phone password in high school I nearly died. She had noticed, she’s told me since, that I hadn’t been myself. Aware that my online life was embarrassing and not actually me, I pleaded with her to give back my phone, hoping, praying she wouldn’t discover any f-bombs or vain mirror
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, a 2021 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year, said on Friday that he has registered as an independent, leaving the Democratic Party after more than four decades. “To stay true to myself and remain committed to put country before party, I have decided to register as an independent with