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

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Are the days of the Democratic Party’s existence numbered?

Hugh Hewitt October 29, 2025 6:00 am

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx mosque.

The rehabilitation of Marxism is changing American politics

Mike Gonzalez October 29, 2025 6:00 am

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres greets a Syrian child during his visit to Khaldeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Guterres is visiting Lebanon where he will meet some Syrian refugees and discuss the situation with Lebanese officials. Lebanon, home to 4.5 million people, is struggling to cope with the presence of more than 1 million refugees in desperate need of housing, education and medical care. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Transfer UNRWA’s budget to the deserving UNHCR

Michael Rubin October 29, 2025 3:00 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Why does Trump tolerate Viktor Orban’s many insults?

Tom Rogan October 28, 2025 2:07 pm

Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa attends a news conference held on 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, in Brooklyn, in New York, Dec. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)

Sliwa exploits taxpayer funds instead of dropping out

Pedro Rodriguez October 28, 2025 1:50 pm

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson raises his arms as he speaks into a microphone.

Brandon Johnson’s racial obsession leaves more dead

Zachary Faria October 28, 2025 1:36 pm

FBI director Kash Patel speaks at a press conference announcing the arrests of Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier in connection with a federal investigation into sports betting and illegal gambling, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in New York.

Stop giving credibility to these gambling apps

Timothy P. Carney October 28, 2025 11:48 am

DHS, ICE illegal immigrants arrested

DHS delivers much-needed illegal immigration reckoning

Christopher Tremoglie October 28, 2025 11:41 am

Iranian demonstrators hold posters of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

To disarm Hezbollah, look to the past

Michael Rubin October 28, 2025 6:00 am

Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One.

Higher education’s politics of compliance shift with Trump in charge

Anne Hendershott October 28, 2025 6:00 am

Vice President JD Vance.

The next Republican is always supposedly ‘worse’ than the last

Becket Adams October 28, 2025 5:00 am

An image of what the East Wing ballroom will look like, released by the White House.

The new White House ballroom should be used for dancing, too

Mark Judge October 28, 2025 5:00 am