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

Thousands of abortion opponents march in the 15th annual Walk for Life.

GOP operative appalled to discover actual pro-lifers

Timothy P. Carney October 22, 2025 10:48 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during their meeting at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025.

Russia’s not-so-secret Orthodox weapon

Ani Chkhikvadze October 22, 2025 6:00 am

After the Hunt movie

Hollywood finally criticizes #MeToo

Mark Judge October 22, 2025 5:00 am

The Star of David decorates the kippah of a participant at a ceremony.

The US is the freest country the Jewish people have ever known

Bethany Mandel October 21, 2025 9:18 pm

Aziz Ansari and Keanu Reeves in a scene from "Good Fortune."

Aziz Ansari returns with socialist comedy ‘Good Fortune’

Harry Khachatrian October 21, 2025 4:38 pm

A Nigerian man prays.

The genocide the Left ignores

Brady Leonard October 21, 2025 4:25 pm

Former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts hosts a campaign event, Sept. 7, 2023, in Rye, New Hampshire.

NH Republican leaders are clamoring to ditch Scott Brown and embrace John Sununu

Peter Laffin October 21, 2025 4:01 pm

President Donald Trump speaks as he hosts a lunch with Republican Senators on the Rose Garden patio at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in Washington.

The Donald J. Trump Ballroom freakout

David Harsanyi October 21, 2025 2:59 pm

Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.

Andrew Cuomo is not some moral alternative to Mamdani

Zachary Faria October 21, 2025 2:52 pm

Students from charter, private, parochial and home schools, participate in a school choice proponents rally Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., as prospects remain unclear for House and Senate bills that would expand programs to spend public money to pay for students to attend private schools.

Parent-driven reform: The blueprint for education success

Pedro Rodriguez October 21, 2025 2:35 pm

Star 2MASS J17554042+6551277 used to align the mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope, with galaxies and stars surrounding it.

Peer-reviewed studies suggest UFOs photographed in orbit prior to Space Age

Tom Rogan October 21, 2025 2:30 pm

Demonstrators gather at Butler Field in Grant Park for the "No Kings! Rally and March" in Chicago.

Democrats omit ‘illegal’ when talking about immigrants at ‘No Kings’ rally

Christopher Tremoglie October 21, 2025 9:32 am