Batya Ungar-Sargon serves as host of NewsNation’s Batya!, which airs Saturdays at 4 p.m. ET. Ms. Ungar-Sargon also contributes commentary and analysis across NewsNation’s daytime and primetime programming.
The weekend show features a panel of guests, including prominent politicians, media personalities, and people in the news, who will debate a range of hot-button political and social issues. Ms. Ungar-Sargon will also examine the week’s most newsworthy topics while offering her own sharp analysis and fiercely independent political viewpoint.
Currently, Ms. Ungar-Sargon serves as a columnist for The Free Press. She is also the author of three books, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women, and the forthcoming The Left and the Jews.
Prior to joining The Free Press, Ms. Ungar-Sargon was the opinion editor at Newsweek. She appears frequently on major news outlets, including Real Time with Bill Maher, The Megyn Kelly Show, The Daily Wire, Sky News, and writes regularly for The New York Post, Compact Magazine, among other publications.
Ms. Ungar-Sargon graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor’s degree in English and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
