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Taylor Lorenz, left, and John Green attend VidCon 2019 at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Beltway Confidential

Rotten to the core

Becket Adams · April 22, 2022 3:00 am

Double standards, subpar Substack

Becket Adams · April 15, 2022 2:02 pm

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Pass on Psaki and ‘civility’?

Becket Adams · April 8, 2022 3:00 am

Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

‘They’re baaaaack!’

Becket Adams · April 1, 2022 3:00 am

Hunter Biden speaks at the Organization of American States on April 12, 2016, in Washington, DC.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

The coast is clear, grave-dancing

Becket Adams · March 18, 2022 3:00 am

2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California.

Beltway Confidential

Biden pulls a Kamala Harris, caught off guard by easy, predictable question regarding inflation

Becket Adams · February 11, 2022 7:38 pm

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., ask questions of the panel during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on conditions at the Southern border, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Threats and apologia

Becket Adams · February 11, 2022 4:00 am

Taiwanese people attend the Tiananmen Anniversary at Democracy Square in Taiwan to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Beltway Confidential

Western media draw moral equivalency between voter ID laws and China’s ongoing genocide

Becket Adams · February 11, 2022 12:14 am

Another Democrat says the quiet part out loud regarding parental rights

Another Democrat says the quiet part out loud regarding parental rights

Becket Adams · February 11, 2022 12:00 am

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., ask questions of the panel during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on conditions at the Southern border, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Gawker none-too-subtly threatens Kyrsten Sinema

Becket Adams · February 10, 2022 10:52 pm

Alerted to its dubious characterization of Watts, NPR updated the story so that it now carries a lengthy correction. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

NPR ignored Hunter Biden but sent three reporters to investigate how the ‘thumbs-up’ emoji is racist

Becket Adams · February 10, 2022 9:57 pm

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke speaks at a campaign event Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Las Vegas.

Beltway Confidential

Beto O’Rourke backtracks on gun confiscation vow

Becket Adams · February 9, 2022 9:52 pm