Jon Levine

1 week ago | freebeacon.com | Jon Levine

MANHATTAN—A parade of keffiyeh-clad students descended on Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday to face formal arraignment for their roles in a violent takeover of Columbia University’s Butler Library. Their lawyer accused Israel of "genocide," asked the court to consider dismissal, and ultimately secured adjournments for procedural documents that will delay the cases for more than a month. A total of 56 defendants were arraigned at the courthouse, with a few joined by their nervous parents.

1 week ago | freebeacon.com | Jon Levine

An Amazon employee who coordinated closely with USAID, a Bloomberg engineer, a professor at Northwestern University, and an armada of tech bros donated large sums to the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)—a militant marxist political party in the United States in the news over its ties to Washington, D.C., shooter Elias Rodriguez. The PSL confirmed Rodriguez’s affiliation with the organization in an X post, claiming the terrorist only had a "brief association" with the group.

1 week ago | freebeacon.com | Jon Levine |Jessica Costescu |Jessica Schwalb

From Million-Dollar Homes to Radical Activism—These Posh Private School Alumni Were Among the Arrested Columbia and Barnard Students Jessica Schwalb, Jon Levine and Jessica Costescu May 22, 2025 Suspected Israeli Embassy Shooter Worked for Woke Education Group Backed by Ford, MacArthur Foundations Jon Levine, Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb May 24, 2025 Some people just aren't that interesting. But for the sake of transparency, the Washington Free Beacon is publishing the names of the...

2 weeks ago | freebeacon.com | Jon Levine

Been there, spun that. CNN’s Jake Tapper hired a former spin doctor on the 2020 Biden-Harris and 2024 Harris-Walz campaigns to try to soften the critical coverage he has received around the launch of his new book. The anchor—who played an integral role in attacking coverage of former president Joe Biden’s cognitive decline—has toured around the country to promote Original Sin, an insider account of the cover-up in which he participated.

2 weeks ago | freebeacon.com | Jessica Schwalb |Jon Levine |Jessica Costescu

The Tapper Dossier: How the CNN 'Journalist' Covered (Up) the Biden Cover-Up—Before Writing a Best-Selling Book About It Jessica Schwalb, Jon Levine and Jessica Costescu May 22, 2025 Emma Biswas grew up in a life of luxury. She the robotics team at the Harker School, which bills itself as one of the nation’s top college prep schools and where tuition can reach $65,000. While there, she interned with a biotech company that boasts, "Prospective Nobel Prize Winners Work Here." And until she left...