“Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones joined his team’s players in kneeling before the national anthem prior to their game Monday night at Arizona,” the Washington Post reports.
“They stood, with arms still interlocked, for the anthem.”


“Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones joined his team’s players in kneeling before the national anthem prior to their game Monday night at Arizona,” the Washington Post reports.
“They stood, with arms still interlocked, for the anthem.”
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Timothy Snyder: “In his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that ‘home-growns are next’ and that El Salvador would…
“The U.S. dollar extended its slide against other major currencies on Monday, the latest sign that investors may be starting to shun what has long been the safest haven in…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “disclosed on Monday that she had purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock on April 8 and 9, the day…
Cornell University joined litigation against the U.S. Department of Energy and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, the Cornell Sun reports. The plaintiffs of the case are alleging that proposed immediate cuts…
Jonathan Chait: “The markets are going haywire, and consumer confidence is nosediving. You might be wondering why the Trump administration decided to burn down the healthy economy it inherited. Is…
Adam Serwer: “Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to ‘facilitate’ the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de…
A new Morning Consult poll in Maine finds 51% of voters disapprove of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and 42% approve of her job performance, a rough inversion of her standing…
The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court…
“On Jan. 20, the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Fox News Media placed four people ‘in complete isolation in upstate New York, with no contact to the outside world…
The White House has begun to notify Congress of its request to eliminate “all” public broadcasting funding, the New York Post reports. Save to Favorites
“With billions of dollars in federal funding at risk, Harvard University officials on Monday rejected Trump administration demands to make sweeping changes to its governance, admissions and hiring practices,” the…
“The Trump administration proposed to cut the budget of the State Department and what remains of the U.S. Agency for International Development by almost half, according to an internal memo…
With the FEC filing deadline looming, House Republicans are showing surprising strength in the money race. At least five Republican incumbents have reported raising more than $1 million in the…
James Carville writes in the New York Times that Democrats have “an opening” thanks to President Trump having screwed up “royally” with his trade war. Said Carville: “In what will…
“El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office Monday he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador — to the…
Charlie Sykes: “Maybe we missed the exact moment it happened. But last week, it was obvious that we have long since passed the tipping point. We’re not slouching toward it,…
Franklin Foer: “Law partners and university presidents like to talk their way out of problems, and they apparently believe that they can ultimately evade the fate that befalls those who…
“National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said more than 10 countries have made “amazing” trade deal offers to the United States after President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs,” CNBC reports….
“China has for years presented an economic challenge for Europe. Now, it could become an economic disaster,” the New York Times reports. “It produces a vast array of artificially cheap…
President Trump on Truth Social: “President Zelenskyy and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin.” Save to Favorites
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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