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

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel chokes back tears as he describes his dismay at Donald Trump’s election, Nov. 6, 2024.(ABC, via YouTube)

Don’t cry for Jimmy Kimmel

Zachary Faria September 18, 2025 2:05 pm

Jimmy Kimmel speaks during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Kimmel was pulled for lying about half the country, not criticizing the president

Conn Carroll September 18, 2025 1:29 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting

Sorry, Europe is still very weak on Russia

Tom Rogan September 18, 2025 12:54 pm

Demonstrations gather at the University of California, Berkeley to protest the Trump administration as part of a Day of Action for Higher Education on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

GOP aims to boost college quality and student enrollment

Pedro Rodriguez September 18, 2025 11:19 am

Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Right is winning the culture war. It doesn’t need the FCC

David Harsanyi September 18, 2025 10:56 am

Roseanne Barr at the "Roseanne" Press Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel on March 23, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage)

Did Democrats forget about Disney firing Gina Carano and Roseanne Barr?

Christopher Tremoglie September 18, 2025 9:52 am

Charlie Kirk speaks before he is shot during Turning Point's visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025.

Charlie Kirk understood conservatives need to take back academia

Mike Gonzalez September 18, 2025 5:00 am

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel chokes back tears as he describes his dismay at Donald Trump’s election, Nov. 6, 2024.(ABC, via YouTube)

Kimmel cancellation isn’t ‘cancel culture.’ It’s consequence culture

Peter Laffin September 17, 2025 9:34 pm

Federal agents (inside of a car) and security guards talk to each other outside of an ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.

The Left renews calls to obstruct justice

Pedro Rodriguez September 17, 2025 4:10 pm

A student protest about the Israel-Gaza war takes place at the University of California, Berkeley's, Sather Gate, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

If Democrats don’t handle campus antisemitism, Trump will

Zachary Faria September 17, 2025 2:38 pm

Jimmy Lai is escorted by Correctional Services officers to get on a prison van on Dec. 12, 2020, before appearing in a court in Hong Kong.

Trump’s UK state visit demands new push for Jimmy Lai release

Tom Rogan September 17, 2025 2:00 pm

Crime scene tape flies in front of a 9/11 memorial following the fatal shooting of political activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on September 11, 2025 in Orem, Utah. Authorities have released a "person of interest" as they search for the suspect who shot and killed Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, while he was speaking at an event for his "American Comeback Tour". (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Republicans welcome law enforcement, Democrats champion crime

Pedro Rodriguez September 17, 2025 10:25 am