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

A "for sale" sign is posted in front of a home.

Family unfriendly housing discrimination

Timothy P. Carney September 26, 2025 4:58 pm

Vice President Kamala Harris stands next to President Joe Biden.

Meet the new Jimmy Carter, worse than the old one

Becket Adams September 26, 2025 2:48 pm

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr speaks in New York City, Sept. 22, 2025.

You either believe in free speech, or you don’t

David Harsanyi September 26, 2025 2:00 pm

Chris Murphy speaks with Katie Britt.

After Dallas ICE shooting Democrats want to ban all guns

Zachary Faria September 26, 2025 1:45 pm

An explosion in a body of water.

The War on Drugs will continue despite Democrats’ complaints

Pedro Rodriguez September 26, 2025 1:42 pm

A mosque in Senegal in West Africa, 2020

US can’t ignore the battle of the mosques in Africa

Michael Rubin September 26, 2025 6:00 am

Afghans gather for a celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.

US evacuation group uncovers Afghan information leak from Brazil

Beth Bailey September 26, 2025 6:00 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) presents his revised state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gavin Newsom’s pathetic preemptive election denialism

Zachary Faria September 25, 2025 2:17 pm

Emily Pietrzak holds a sign that reads "ICE=Gestapo"

Three specific reasons to stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo

Tom Rogan September 25, 2025 2:05 pm

Charlie Kirk throws hats to the crowd after arriving at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at his "American Comeback Tour" when he was shot in the neck and killed.

Loyola Marymount promotes hostile environment for conservatives

Pedro Rodriguez September 25, 2025 12:52 pm

Charlie Kirk.

Christian nationalism, Charlie Kirk, and the useful idiots of left-wing hate

Christopher Tremoglie September 25, 2025 11:23 am

President Donald Trump salutes after deplaning Air Force One.

Trump the Realist strikes again on Ukraine

Peter Laffin September 25, 2025 6:00 am