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Maya Sulkin

Maya Sulkin is a reporter at The Free Press. Before that, Maya was chief of staff. She started as an intern in 2021 while a student at Columbia University.

maya@thefp.com
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The Middle East on the Brink with Haviv Rettig Gur
The Israel expert answers subscriber questions and explains the history behind the headlines.
Maya Sulkin
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Is Florida Really Where ‘Woke Goes to Die’?
Santa Ono, Ben Sasse’s likely successor as president of the University of Florida, spent years as a ‘vigorous champion of the whole DEI agenda.’
Maya Sulkin
The Good Life, According to Gen Z
Meet the Zoomers who are quitting the rat race, skipping the $8 lattes, and buying homes in towns you’ve never heard of.
Maya Sulkin
Who Is the Real Mohsen Mahdawi?
Supporters of the pro-Palestinian student organizer at Columbia say he is a blameless victim. Police reports, social media posts, and court filings tell…
Maya Sulkin
Denounced, Cursed, and Ghosted: What Harvard’s Antisemitism Report Found
‘I’m a Jew and I’ve learned that that is enough to make me no longer worthy of their friendship or even basic kindness at school.’
Maya Sulkin
Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities
Foreign countries such as China and Qatar have poured $29 billion into campuses over the past few years. ‘Hostile powers are buying influence on…
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Trump Admin to Harvard: Where Is Your Antisemitism Report?
Harvard’s antisemitism task force promised to publish its findings last fall. Months after the deadline, it still hasn’t appeared—and now the federal…
Maya Sulkin
Jay Bhattacharya: ‘Fauci’s Pardon Is a Good Thing’
The new National Institutes of Health director tells The Free Press that he forgives the very people who nearly destroyed his career.
Maya Sulkin
Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private
In a call with faculty, Katrina Armstrong says the school plans not to stick to some of its agreements with the Trump administration.
Maya Sulkin
Lawsuit Targets Anti-Israel Campus Leaders for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Hamas
Complaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups.
Maya Sulkin
Right Young Things: A Night Out with the MAGA Kids
I went to the Trump Tower party for young, single conservatives. Here’s what I overheard.
Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Tells Columbia How to Get Its $400M Back
Ivy League college told to ban masks, expel or suspend students who promote Jew-hate, and put a department under ‘academic receivership’ for five years.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning
A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that…
Gabe Kaminsky, Madeleine Rowley, and Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds
Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start…
Maya Sulkin
New York’s Vigil for That Terrorist—What’s His Name?
Dozens of New Yorkers turned out to pay homage to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Very few knew who he was.
Josh Code and Maya Sulkin
The Free Press in Love
This Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing tales of romance found in unexpected places—on rooftops, in newsrooms, across continents, and in a fourth-grade…
Maya Sulkin
Inside Columbia University’s ‘Museum of Terror’
A recent exhibit presented the tools and planning behind the Hamilton Hall break-in. A speaker called for a ‘Zionist-free NYC.’
Maya Sulkin
Introducing the First Class of Free Press Fellows
Building a journalistic institution above all means building journalists. Meet five extraordinary young people we believe in.
Maya Sulkin
Young Jews Brace for ‘A Day of Global Jihad’
At our institutions of higher education, the quads are alive with hate.
Maya Sulkin
America’s Love Affair with Adderall
And what happened when we were forced to live without it.
Maya Sulkin
Dear College Freshman . . .
Choices about duvets, dorms, and paleo, gluten-free meal plans don’t actually matter. Here’s what does.
Maya Sulkin
This Weekend in American Shootings
More than 220 Americans were killed with guns over the holiday. Seven of them were in my hometown.
Maya Sulkin
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