Beltway Confidential

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) speaks during a news conference.

Josh Shapiro too cowardly to denounce black man’s racism in alleged killing of white Philadelphia police officer

Christopher Tremoglie · October 21, 2026 2:02 pm

A sign outside a polling station on November 3, 2020, in East Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The polling industry keeps falling for (and promoting) fake polls

Department of Elections workers sort mail-in ballots

California has no real safeguards for voting and voter registration

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., visits the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer.

Democrats want to turn the United States into France

President Donald Trump waves as he walks past presidential black-and-white portraits.

Why Putin flourishes, and Zelensky falters, with Trump

Army parachute

The NATO code to deter Russia: 82-173-6-16-11

Tom Rogan August 28, 2026 11:51 am

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) talks to the media prior to a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Pocono Raceway, Sunday, June 14, 2026, in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.

Just like Great American State Fair, Josh Shapiro struggles to tell truth on measles

Christopher Tremoglie August 28, 2026 11:29 am

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul el Sayed.

Can Abdul el Sayed be trusted with intelligence community secrets?

Michael Rubin August 28, 2026 6:00 am

This collage shows incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, left, in Palmer, Alaska, with a microphone and a candidate to the right in Alaska's U.S. Senate race, Dan J. Sullivan, donning a green vest and red sweatshirt and a fist on his head.

Democrats embrace voter suppression with decoy Dan Sullivan in Alaska

Zachary Faria August 27, 2026 1:57 pm

President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone with a yellow tie on at the White House.

China smells Trump’s weakness on sanctions and allies

Tom Rogan August 27, 2026 11:49 am

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks as Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol.

By 2028, Fetterman can be a Democrat or a senator, but not both

Zachary Faria August 26, 2026 1:33 pm

The roof of a police patrol car at night, with the blue and red lights flashing.

California Democrats don’t care about the state’s drunk driving death crisis

Zachary Faria August 25, 2026 2:46 pm

Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.

Is the US right to remove Syria’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism?

Sean Durns August 25, 2026 2:23 pm

This still taken from CCTV and issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Wednesday Sept. 5, 2018, shows Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov at Salisbury train station on March 3, 2018. British prosecutors have charged two Russian men, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury. They are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok.

Russia sowed the British wind, now it is reaping the whirlwind

Tom Rogan August 25, 2026 12:11 pm

Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom greets a friend before a WNBA basketball game.

A WNBA player verbally assaulted Enes Kanter Freedom for defining what a woman is

Christopher Tremoglie August 25, 2026 9:36 am

Independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn speaks at an election night watch party.

Democrats rely on ‘independent’ Senate candidate Dan Osborn

Zachary Faria August 25, 2026 8:54 am

T-shirt promoting democratic socialism

How democratic socialists dodge the reality of Communist dystopia

Ani Chkhikvadze August 25, 2026 6:00 am