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

Students in highly segregated schools tend to commit more crimes, according to a new study. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Parents file complaint against Minneapolis Public Schools over segregation

Pedro Rodriguez October 21, 2025 9:23 am

Containers with Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, a Taiwanese container shipping company, are stacked up at the Port of Los Angeles with the the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge seen in the background on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

America’s prosperity starts at the ports

Pedro Rodriguez October 21, 2025 8:34 am

Donald Trump.

Is the time ripe for Trump to try solving the Cyprus question?

Ani Chkhikvadze October 21, 2025 6:00 am

James Madison

No Kings is not ‘what democracy looks like’ in the founders’ republic

Peter Laffin October 20, 2025 2:59 pm

Protesters at a No Kings rally.

‘No Kings’ is the dumbest protest of the Trump era

Zachary Faria October 20, 2025 2:55 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

What will a Mayor Mamdani mean for education?

Pedro Rodriguez October 20, 2025 2:51 pm

In this May 8, 2019 photo, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stand at the new border crossing facility on the U.S.-Canadian border in Derby Line, Vt. Court documents say federal agents seized almost 370 pounds (166.6 kilos) of cocaine that was hidden in a truck that was preparing to enter Canada at the Derby Line border crossing on Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

I reported on terrorists at the northern border. Then the threats came

Bethany Blankley October 20, 2025 2:41 pm

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.

Abigail Spanberger is unfit to lead

Alfredo Ortiz October 20, 2025 8:28 am

President Donald Trump traveled to Mar-a-Lago, his lavish Palm Beach, Florida social club, for a weekend of golf, fundraisers, and conducting the duties of the presidency from the so-called “winter White House.”

Trump must apply the lessons of Gaza to Ukraine and Venezuela

John Bolton October 20, 2025 6:00 am

Charlie Kirk.

The State Department doesn’t need to play speech police

Brad Polumbo October 19, 2025 2:57 pm

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

The party that cried fascism

Elizabeth Stauffer October 19, 2025 6:00 am

A whitetail doe and her fawn.

Bureaucratic red tape is forcing a baby deer to be euthanized

Tudor Dixon October 18, 2025 6:00 am