Beltway Confidential

Demonstrators wave placards during a news conference

Colorado and Washington voters must reckon with transgender athletes and surgeries

Zachary Faria · October 27, 2026 2:45 pm

Election over, Israel-UK intelligence cooperation will thrive again

Donald Trump working the fry counter at McDonald's and speaking to press from the passenger seat of a garbage truck.

It’s time for Trump to work a shift at the Cheesecake Factory

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a campaign event ahead of Election Day Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, in Nashua, N.H.

California Democrats still butting heads over destructive wealth tax

Former President Barack Obama

Obama is wrong that war has made Iran stronger. He’s right that it’s made the US weaker.

Iranian Shahed exploding drone.

Ukraine shows how to defeat Iranian drones

Ani Chkhikvadze March 3, 2026 1:47 pm

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.

No, the War Powers Resolution doesn’t give the president 60 days of free war

Timothy P. Carney March 3, 2026 10:23 am

Smoke rises from an oil refinery in Cuba.

Oil prices will likely fall quickly

James Rogan March 3, 2026 6:00 am

Workers install a billboard on an overpass containing a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Don’t give Europe or Turkey a say in Iran’s reconstruction

Michael Rubin March 3, 2026 6:00 am

A large group of protesters demonstrate against a KKK rally.

Where religion exits, extremism enters

Timothy P. Carney March 2, 2026 4:54 pm

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks with students and staff, during a visit to the Walbottle Academy Campus in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.

Keir Starmer smites the special relationship on Iran

Tom Rogan March 2, 2026 3:59 pm

A woman burns a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after lighting a cigarette.

Trump delivers freedom while the Left marches for oppression

Steven Taff March 2, 2026 3:25 pm

President Donald Trump talks with California Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving on Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport.

California is a dependent state, not a powerhouse

Zachary Faria March 1, 2026 2:00 pm

Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tehran.

The Iran strike is about weakening China

Conn Carroll March 1, 2026 11:06 am

A protester holds a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest against U.S. and Israeli attacks on multiple cities across Iran at a bridge leading to the fortified Green Zone where the U.S. Embassy is located in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026.

Khamenei is dead. We’re about to learn how many terrorists crossed the US border

Tom Rogan February 28, 2026 3:48 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Gonzalez)

Trump shakes Iran’s tree to see what falls out

Tom Rogan February 28, 2026 3:31 pm

Leader of right-wing AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag.

A welcome AfD court ruling for German democracy

Ani Chkhikvadze February 28, 2026 6:00 am