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

Demonstrators protest outside the Columbia University campus on the Day of Action for Higher Education, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in New York.

Generation rage: American youth herald a new age of political violence

Peter Laffin September 17, 2025 6:00 am

Numbered theater chairs upholstered in burgundy.

The anti-communist film festival

Mark Judge September 17, 2025 6:00 am

Houthi supporters.

America is repeating its Somalia mistakes in Yemen

Michael Rubin September 17, 2025 6:00 am

Gov. Nancy Hochul (D-NY) and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Kathy Hochul gives up on fighting against antisemitism

Zachary Faria September 16, 2025 2:53 pm

A man fires a weapon as Palestinians carry the bodies of people who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza that has been used as a shelter, during their funeral near the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on July 25. (AFP via Getty Images)

Democratic Party call for disarmament would leave Israel defenseless

Pedro Rodriguez September 16, 2025 2:08 pm

Police and Military Police secure parts of a damaged UAV shot down by Polish authorities.

Poland’s economic boom continues unabated

James Rogan September 16, 2025 1:46 pm

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks at a podium.

Why are US military officers fêting Belarus

Ani Chkhikvadze September 16, 2025 12:37 pm

The back of a safety helmet worn by a steelworker.

Steel country Democrats lament the party’s leftward tack on economics, gender, and sexuality

Timothy P. Carney September 16, 2025 10:36 am

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a human smuggling news conference on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Tampa, Florida.

Lawmakers investigate China-backed NGOs

Pedro Rodriguez September 16, 2025 10:34 am

In this May 28, 2020, file photo, a protester carries an American flag upside down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building in Minneapolis.

Vigils, not violence. Charlie Kirk supporters didn’t riot while grieving

Christopher Tremoglie September 16, 2025 10:03 am

A well-wisher places flowers at a makeshift memorial set up at Turning Point USA headquarters after the shooting death at a Utah college on Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder and CEO of the organization, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Yes, celebrating murder is grounds for social exile

Jeremiah Poff September 16, 2025 8:00 am

People protest against Israel at the Israeli Embassy.

It’s time to end the ‘Gaza genocide’ canard

Elliott Broidy September 16, 2025 6:00 am