Beltway Confidential

Pennsylvania state Sen. Tracy Pennycuick.

Meet Tracy Pennycuick, the trailblazing Pennsylvania state senator pioneering bipartisan AI safeguards

Christopher Tremoglie · October 30, 2026 8:37 am

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

ICE Training Philly worst of worst illegal immigrants

Philadelphia Democrats organize to disrupt ICE. They’re protecting violent illegal immigrants

JB Pritzker speaks at a convention.

JB Pritzker lives in an alternate Illinois reality

President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Trump rightly fetes Mohammed bin Salman at White House

Tom Rogan November 18, 2025 3:39 pm

Newsom and Trump talk.

Trump takes a page out of Newsom’s playbook with tariff checks

Zachary Faria November 18, 2025 3:23 pm

Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a news conference.

Ukraine’s corruption scandal deepens

Ani Chkhikvadze November 18, 2025 3:07 pm

Donald Trump aboard Air Force One.

Do Epstein files make Venezuela military action likelier?

Tom Rogan November 18, 2025 12:20 pm

Michelle Obama speaks onstage at Vice President Kamala Harris's rally.

Michelle Obama shows she’s just a miserable curmudgeon who hates America

Christopher Tremoglie November 18, 2025 11:16 am

Young men play football in Bamako, Mali.

If Mali falls, could Nigeria be next?

Michael Rubin November 18, 2025 6:00 am

Hamas militants, accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

‘Palestine’ doesn’t deserve to be a state

Zachary Faria November 17, 2025 2:53 pm

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Trump should boost UN high commissioner for refugees

Michael Rubin November 17, 2025 6:00 am

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

Failing cities turn to failed socialism

Zachary Faria November 14, 2025 1:10 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at an event in Beijing.

Why China remains incandescent over Japan’s comments on Taiwan

Tom Rogan November 14, 2025 12:38 pm

Parents playing with kids on the beach.

Is having children really cost-prohibitive?

Debra Soh November 14, 2025 8:28 am

Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, founder and leader of the Georgian Dream party, greets demonstrators during a rally in support of "Russian law."

Georgia sinks further into authoritarianism and Russia’s orbit

Ani Chkhikvadze November 14, 2025 6:00 am