Beltway Confidential

Demonstrators wave placards during a news conference

Colorado and Washington voters must reckon with transgender athletes and surgeries

Zachary Faria · October 27, 2026 2:45 pm

Election over, Israel-UK intelligence cooperation will thrive again

Donald Trump working the fry counter at McDonald's and speaking to press from the passenger seat of a garbage truck.

It’s time for Trump to work a shift at the Cheesecake Factory

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a campaign event ahead of Election Day Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, in Nashua, N.H.

California Democrats still butting heads over destructive wealth tax

Former President Barack Obama

Obama is wrong that war has made Iran stronger. He’s right that it’s made the US weaker.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

Jimmy Lai’s fate is a warning for Taiwan

Sean Durns February 13, 2026 8:00 am

One of Pacific Gas & Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. On Thursday, June 13, 2024, former state and federal officials joined environmentalists to spotlight soaring cost estimates for keeping the plant running beyond 2025. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

AI’s energy demands are fueling a nuclear comeback

Steven Taff February 12, 2026 4:56 pm

Police tape surrounds a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.

Fueling the transgender persecution complex is getting people killed

Zachary Faria February 12, 2026 1:56 pm

A collage of a slab of stone that says "foiba di basovizza" and the Italian flag.

Buried alive: Remembering communism’s brutal Foibe massacre of Italians

Christopher Tremoglie February 12, 2026 9:27 am

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Enabled by Democrats, Albanian prosecutors pursue Edi Rama’s political opponents

Michael Rubin February 12, 2026 6:00 am

Oren Cass speaks at the National Conservative Conference

Oren Cass is badly wrong about the financial industry

James Rogan February 12, 2026 6:00 am

Anti-fascist counter-protestors demonstrate near the "Justice for J6" rally in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 2021, hosted by the Look Ahead America organization in support of those arrested during the January 6 insurrection (Photo by Bryan Dozier/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Stop calling everything fascism

Steven Taff February 11, 2026 4:15 pm

Signage is seen at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 21, 2022.

The Icky Facts Doctrine

Guy Benson February 11, 2026 3:50 pm

A judge sits at a table without his face showing, holding papers with a gavel in front of him.

Pro-criminal judges must be removed from their posts

Zachary Faria February 11, 2026 1:25 pm

A sign announces hiring.

Will ‘Panican’ about the unemployment rate become a thing of the past?

Tiana Lowe Doescher February 11, 2026 12:55 pm

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel waves a Cuban flag at a January 2026 rally opposing U.S. intervention in Venezuela.

Is Communist Cuba on its last legs?

Ani Chkhikvadze February 11, 2026 6:00 am

Couple holding hands.

Is the dating recession an affordability issue?

Conn Carroll February 10, 2026 2:26 pm