Frannie Block

The administration’s truce with Columbia goes much further than payouts. It's a watershed moment in our reckoning over the flourishing antisemitism on US campuses. And there's little agreement on its efficacy. My latest for @TheFP with @FrannieBlock: thefp.com/p/behind-the-2…

$21 million is "like couch money" for Columbia University, said Mario Torres, the janitor who was held hostage last spring after masked protestors took over a campus building. That's "not something that is going to hurt them. The way they hurt me, I want it to hurt them.…

The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-price-of…

I asked Jim Moran, one of Qatar's most influential lobbyists in Congress, what he made of the royal family's views of Hamas. Here's what he told me in @TheFP :

NEW in @TheFP Reagan's Secretary of Education joins Qatar's payroll thefp.com/p/reagans-secr…

To work in America, some illegal immigrants steal Social Security numbers. Their victims pay a steep price. ‘It’s my life they’re playing with, and it’s not fair.’ NEW w/ @Maddie_Rowley_ in @TheFP thefp.com/p/immigrant-cr…

In 2020, as a high school junior, Holden Hughes was falsely accused of blackface. The allegation wasn't true, but it still haunts him to this day. My latest in @TheFP thefp.com/p/he-was-false…

He was 14 when he posed for a photo while wearing a dark-green acne mask. He was 17 when the photo went viral. Now in college, Holden Hughes tells The Free Press how his life derailed in 2020. @FrannieBlock reports: thefp.pub/3TkOXTg

STOLEN SSNs: Has your social security number been stolen in the last 5-10 years? I’d love to hear your story for a follow-up article!

ICE had intel that dozens of illegal aliens working at a meatpacking plant in Omaha, Nebraska were using the stolen social security numbers of Americans in order to bypass the government’s E-Verify system.

"Vibe shift" is how one senior White House official summed up the Trump-Musk blowup to The Free Press. A prominent venture capital executive said the rift is “so predictable it hurts.” Trump and Musk Are Getting Divorced. What Happens to the Kids? w/ @FrannieBlock

American newsrooms are meant to be above the political fray. Qatari money has still found a way to break through.

Qatar has spend almost $100 billion to establish its influence in the United States... what does the tiny Gulf nation want in return? My first appearance on @thehonestlypod with @FPJaySolomon discussing our investigation in @TheFP thefp.com/p/how-qatar-bo…

This week, the DSA splintered over how to react to the cold-blooded shootings of two Israeli embassy workers. “Is it good to condemn violence against a genocidal apartheid state?” one member asked. My latest w/ @Olivia_Reingold for @TheFP thefp.com/p/dsa-torn-ove…

It's more than just the jet

Watch our great @thefp video – put together by the unrivaled @TanyaLukyanova_ -- telling the story behind our investigation into, “How Qatar Bought Washington”: tinyurl.com/2pn26ncv

I don’t agree with @GlennLoury on Israel and war in Gaza. But to claim he’s antisemitic is an absurd slur. Disagree with his argument, don’t impugn his character.

The FP’s @FrannieBlock stopped by @KatyTurNBC to discuss her investigation into Qatar’s multibillion-dollar effort to influence the U.S. “What does that mean for our national security, when we have so many members of the presidential administration who have ties to this regime—a…

It took months: But here’s @frannieblock and my deep dive into the story of #Qatar and how it entrenched itself in Washington, from the Pentagon to the White House. Only @thefp: tinyurl.com/yc3m7ynh