Beltway Confidential

The Cedar Viaduct, designed to take high-speed trains over Cedar and North avenues and State Route 99, is shown in an aerial view, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno, California.

California high-speed rail CEO’s resignation won’t save the project

Zachary Faria · October 30, 2026 1:44 pm

Collage of President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama.

If you like your Cheesecake Factory, you can keep your Cheesecake Factory

Pennsylvania state Sen. Tracy Pennycuick.

Meet Tracy Pennycuick, the trailblazing Pennsylvania state senator pioneering bipartisan AI safeguards

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.

Becerra will be Newsom, but worse for California

Former President Barack Obama speaks in support of Democratic candidates Sen. Jon Ossoff and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms during a rally on Oct. 28 in Morrow, Georgia. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

Obama is ‘tired of being divided’: Pot, meet kettle

An altar with flags and portraits of the people kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 is seen during a peaceful demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Israel Fuguemann/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

On the second anniversary of Oct. 7, Iowa stands with Israel

Rep. Randy Feenstra, Charles Schneider October 7, 2025 8:13 am

The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture

The 1619 Project’s fingerprints are all over the Smithsonian’s African American museum

Mike Gonzalez October 7, 2025 8:00 am

Today, the education system silos students throughout their schooling lives to the detriment to students and our nation's success. (iStock by Getty Images)

‘Jesus was woke’: How a school choice activist went Left

Mark Judge October 7, 2025 6:00 am

A poster depicting Israeli hostage Alon Ohel is displayed in Re'im, southern Israel at the Gaza border, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 at a memorial site for the Nova music festival site where he was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

The Road Between Us shows why Oct. 7 can never be forgotten

Harry Khachatrian October 7, 2025 5:00 am

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) gestures as he speaks.

Ro Khanna continues to undermine moral support for Israel

Zachary Faria October 6, 2025 3:32 pm

Armed members of Hamas's Izzedine al Qassam Brigades ride in the back of a truck.

Ways and Means Committee pushes for tax revocation of several nonprofit organizations

Pedro Rodriguez October 6, 2025 3:24 pm

Bassem Youssef is interviewed by the Associated Press in London, Thursday, April 4, 2024.

America, don’t fall for the ‘Arab Jon Stewart’

Haisam Hassanein October 6, 2025 2:50 pm

In this Jan. 26, 2017 file photo, Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist, chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors, speaks during a news conference the at the National Press Club in Washington. Krauss, an Arizona State University physics professor known for his work with the Doomsday Clock, has been suspended from his job following allegations of groping, ogling and other sexual misconduct incidents. The school confirmed Wednesday, March 7, 2018, that Lawrence Krauss is on paid leave and prohibited from campus while a review is conducted.

Lawrence Krauss’s war on woke science

Peter Laffin October 6, 2025 2:20 pm

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Washington, as U.S. Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley and Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Hippies plan an emergency Trump protest by riding bikes naked

Christopher Tremoglie October 6, 2025 11:12 am

Jordanian hospital with Hamas terror tunnel entrance

Hamas built a rocket factory tunnel under Jordanian hospital in Gaza

Benjamin Weinthal October 6, 2025 6:00 am

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a highway during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, on March 2, 2025.

ADL report shows urgency of antisemitism crisis

Beth Bailey October 6, 2025 6:00 am

Marco Rubio.

State Department’s model for Somaliland should be Taiwan, not Kurdistan

Michael Rubin October 6, 2025 6:00 am