Beltway Confidential

Network of Enlightened Women 2026 Essay Contest college winner

By Dameiya McMillian April 27, 2026 6:00 am

Network of Enlightened Women 2026 Essay Contest high school winner

Emma Hurley Apr 27, 2026

Jared Kushner, left, and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

What happens the day after tomorrow in Iran?

Ani Chkhikvadze Apr 26, 2026

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Why the CIA deaths are a problem for Mexico

Daniel DePetris Apr 25, 2026

An Iranian Shahed exploding drone launched by Russia flies through the sky

Why Russia is bombing Ukraine in daylight

Ani Chkhikvadze Apr 25, 2026

Foxborough, MA - February 10: New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has his final press conference of the 2025-26 season at Gillette Stadium on February 10, 2026. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Mike Vrabel has failed as a leader of men

By Zachary Faria April 24, 2026 3:04 pm

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as France's President Emmanuel Macron listens during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in foreground, President Donald Trump and European leaders in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Washington.

Starmer and Macron underline European impotence with Hormuz naval plan

By Tom Rogan April 24, 2026 1:25 pm

Hasan Piker attends a press conference during day three of Web Summit Qatar 2026 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center.

The Democratic Party’s love affair with hateful communist Hasan Piker

By Zachary Faria April 23, 2026 2:36 pm

The ground-based THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense] system is 15 for 15 in tests against mock North Korean-style medium range missiles. (Photo Credit: Missile Defense Agency)

US tempts China by exhausting air defense munitions in Iran war

By Tom Rogan April 23, 2026 2:14 pm

A power line and an ascending graph in a low-poly style against the sky.

Maine’s idiotic moratorium on data centers

By James Rogan April 23, 2026 6:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks about the war in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is right. The Virginia redistricting referendum was rigged

By Peter Cordi April 22, 2026 3:33 pm

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza in London, July 29, 2025. Starmer announced that the U.K. would recognize Palestine as a state on Sept. 21, 2025. (Toby Melville/AFP/Getty)

The UK criminalizes being a Christian near hospitals

By Zachary Faria April 22, 2026 1:51 pm

Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed

Michigan Democrats become the party of Dearborn and Gaza

By Zachary Faria April 21, 2026 2:02 pm

Pentagon building (Getty Images)

The Pentagon should turn to Paraguay and Guyana

By Michael Rubin April 21, 2026 6:00 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) speaks during a press conference.

How Newsom allows bureaucrats to kill Fourth of July fireworks

By Zachary Faria April 20, 2026 1:44 pm

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb.

DC cracks down on competition with Empower ride share ban

By James Rogan April 20, 2026 6:00 am

This image provided by NASA Data from six orbits of the Suomi-NPP spacecraft on April 9, 2015 have been assembled into this perspective composite of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans. Tropical Cyclone Joalane is seen over the Indian Ocean. The image was created by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Africa Command shows the way in Libya

By Michael Rubin April 18, 2026 6:00 am