New York Magazine: “Can former CNN pundit John Avlon flip a Long Island congressional seat blue with his West Wing throwback politics?”
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Save to FavoritesNew York Magazine: “Can former CNN pundit John Avlon flip a Long Island congressional seat blue with his West Wing throwback politics?”
I’ll be holding a private conversation for members with John Avlon on Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET.
Save to FavoritesDonald Trump’s campaign says it will sue the filmmakers of “The Apprentice,” which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this week, after it was reported the movie features a scene…
“The U.S. opposes a proposed global wealth tax on billionaires, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said, rejecting an idea floated by Brazil, France and other nations to tip the economic scales…
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he doesn’t plan to hold hearings on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house flying an upside-down flag in the aftermath of the 2020…
“The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get ‘very bad, very fast’ after troops departed, but the Biden administration…
Peter Navarro told Semafor in a prison interview that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would be gone in the first 100 days of a second Donald Trump term that would…
Speaker Mike Johnson’s “plan to keep his GOP ranks united following the failed motion to vacate by dividing Democrats continues to play out remarkably well,” Politico reports. Save to Favorites
“Three leading members of Speaker Mike Johnson’s policy team are leaving his office by the end of May, robbing the House’s top Republican of a critical core of experienced aides,”…
“The 12 jurors who will decide the guilt or innocence of Donald Trump in the first criminal trial of an American president could be deliberating his fate next week after…
“Donald Trump and the Republican Party out-raised President Biden and the Democrats last month for the first time in this election cycle, according to campaign officials, as Mr. Biden’s pace…
“Three former U.S. foreign policy officials in Donald Trump’s administration met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other public figures in Israel on Monday,” Reuters reports. “The delegation was comprised…
A new NHJournal/Praecones Analytica poll in New Hampshire finds Joe Biden and Donald Trump dead even in the presidential race, 37% to 37%, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 15%…
“For more than two decades, through two wars and domestic upheaval, the idea that al-Qaeda acted alone on 9/11 has been the basis of U.S. policy. A blue-ribbon commission concluded…
“The Biden administration was close to transferring 11 detainees out of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a country in the Middle East in October 2023, but abruptly…
9A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a ‘unified Reich’ among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November,”…
“President Joe Biden’s political operation raised $51 million in April — a significant decline from its March fundraising, according to totals released by his campaign Monday,” CNN reports. “Biden’s campaign…
Tom Nichols: “Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, works for the totalitarian Ministry of Truth, where his assignment is to produce lies. He rewrites history so…
“An aide to Mayor Eric Adams who served as his longtime liaison to the Turkish community and whose home was searched by the FBI has been cooperating with the corruption…
“A proposed amendment to enshrine access to abortion in Nevada’s constitution is one step closer to appearing on the November 2024 ballot, after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates on…
“Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg bowed to pressure to resign from the bank regulator after an external investigation found widespread sexual harassment at the agency and lawmakers of…
Trump Media and Technology Group, the company affiliated with Donald Trump that operates Truth Social, reported $770,500 in revenue for the first quarter of 2024 and a net loss of…
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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