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

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

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Keir Starmer takes another leap toward political oblivion

Tom Rogan February 27, 2026 3:18 pm

Planes fly over Dodger Stadium as the national anthem is sung before a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Thursday, April 14, 2022. Stadium concession workers could go on strike in advance of next weekâs All-Star Game, the union representing those workers said Monday. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Why baseball is America’s refuge from the culture war

Steven Taff February 27, 2026 3:17 pm

Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar yell at President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address

Democrats have been disrupting Republican presidential addresses since the 1970s

Christopher Tremoglie February 27, 2026 1:28 pm