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

Welcome to Mississippi state border roadside entrance sign.

There is no denying: Red states are better on education

Zachary Faria October 2, 2025 2:42 pm

A member of the public is helped from the scene of a stabbing incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Thursday Oct. 2, 2025.

Manchester attack underlines Europe’s antisemitic terrorism challenge

Tom Rogan October 2, 2025 1:58 pm

FILE - Protesters for and against transgender procedures for minors demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Parents urge Trump to probe Las Cruces schools

Pedro Rodriguez October 2, 2025 12:28 pm

A video posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social account depicting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of N.Y., is shown in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington. The sombrero and mustache were superimposed on Jeffries.

For whom the bell trolls: Sombrero meme reveals who’s winning shutdown fight

Peter Laffin October 2, 2025 8:03 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at a press conference in Kyiv.

Let Ukraine throw Tomahawks at Russia

Ani Chkhikvadze October 2, 2025 6:00 am

FILE - A canning jar filled with money sits on a shelf in East Derry, N.H., June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Protecting families means ending shutdowns

Pedro Rodriguez October 1, 2025 4:13 pm

Demonstrators advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. Notably absent from Biden’s policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos, File)

Parental rights group files civil rights complaint against Albuquerque schools

Pedro Rodriguez October 1, 2025 1:55 pm

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.

Virginia Democrats are protecting a transgender sex offender

Zachary Faria October 1, 2025 1:49 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

Democrats willfully ignore the political fundamentals of the shutdown

Peter Laffin October 1, 2025 12:55 pm

Obamacare is a massive failure, the GOP shouldn’t bail it out

David Harsanyi October 1, 2025 11:23 am

President Donald Trump, center, looks to Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, shake hands with Syria's interim President Ahmad al Sharaa.

Trump delivers unprecedented peace and stability

Pedro Rodriguez October 1, 2025 11:08 am

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C is seen as it sinks in the Red Sea.

Want to defeat the Houthis? Here’s how to do it

Michael Rubin October 1, 2025 6:00 am