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Wall Street Journal: “In Europe, Russia is seeking to exploit Trump’s desire to halt the war in Ukraine and strike business deals with Moscow by shaping a peace plan that…
“North Carolina’s new congressional map can be used for the 2026 elections, a panel of federal judges ruled Wednesday — a win for Republicans in a nationally watched case at…
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping was angry, and President Trump was listening,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Days after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi outraged China by suggesting a Chinese attack…
Politico: “Charities that help people cover their medical bills say they’re seeing an alarming increase in requests for help. Worse yet, they say, it’s coming even before cuts to Medicaid…
“France is creating a paid, voluntary military service for young people and aims to enroll up to 50,000 of them over the next decade,” the New York Times reports. “The…
“Russia said on that the leak of a recording of a call between top advisers to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was an unacceptable attempt to undermine Ukraine peace negotiations…
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“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told European allies that the U.S. wants a peace deal before it agrees to any security guarantees for Ukraine,” Politico reports. “Trump has said…
“After several bruising weeks for Speaker Mike Johnson, a soft-focus podcast interview alongside his wife, conducted by Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, one of President Trump’s top advisers,…
Two National Guardsmen were shot just before 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, right next to Farragut Square Park and two blocks north of the White House, NBC News reports. Save to…
“The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred a decision about whether President Trump could remove the government’s top copyright official until after the justices resolved a pair of related cases testing…
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“A federal appeals court has upheld a penalty of nearly $1 million against President Donald Trump and attorney Alina Habba, concluding they committed ‘sanctionable conduct’ by filing a frivolous lawsuit…
“Zohran Mamdani, the incoming mayor of New York City, has requested the resignations of 179 staff members in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration,” the New York Times reports. “The requests target…
“House Democrats are jumping into an upcoming special election in Tennessee, dumping $1 million on an increasingly nationalized battle for a deep-red congressional seat as President Donald Trump gets involved…
“Dr. Ralph Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines ‘dangerous,’ has been named the second in…
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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