Coming soon: Lion of the Senate: When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress by Nick Littlefield and David Nexon.
High praise from Doris Kearns Goodwin: “The best book I have read about the inner dynamics of the United States Senate.”


Coming soon: Lion of the Senate: When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress by Nick Littlefield and David Nexon.
High praise from Doris Kearns Goodwin: “The best book I have read about the inner dynamics of the United States Senate.”
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Gallup finds Democrats have retaken the lead in party identification, 48% to 41%, the party’s best reading since the first quarter of the Biden administration. Save to Favorites
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) spoke to reporters: REPORTER: Getting back to the threat to Hakeem Jeffries, this is one of a number of January 6 pardons that have been rearrested…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told reporters that he would support Republicans using the so-called nuclear option to override the Senate filibuster to pass a bill to reopen the government, The…
A new Gallup poll finds 62% of Americans say the federal government has too much power, with most of the rest saying the government’s power is about right. Save to…
President Trump gave Hamas an ultimatum: Immediately disarm or face a “FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL!” end. Save to Favorites
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“Republican state senators in North Carolina approved redrawing the state’s congressional map Tuesday in hopes of gaining another U.S. House seat, heeding President Donald Trump’s request to help protect their…
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“The U.S. military has killed at least 32 people in seven strikes off the coast of Venezuela without telling Congress or the American people who was killed, or on what…
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan sent a reporter dozens of text messages to complain about her reporting — and then tried to claim after the…
“Donald Trump reportedly took time out from his 2024 presidential campaign to try to help one of his closest allies get ‘laid’ at his Mar-a-Lago resort,” the Daily Beast reports….
“Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are quietly ramping up talks within their senior ranks and with White House officials over how to structure and advance a potential extension of key…
Edward Luce: “If there were a Nobel Prize for patience, Volodymyr Zelenskyy would run away with it. The Ukrainian leader’s February encounter with the just-inaugurated Donald Trump went down as…
“Former President Nicolas Sarkozy began a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday, marking an unprecedented downfall for a French ex-head of state who rose to power as a political outsider with…
A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, CBS News reports. Save to Favorites
Graham Platner, the Maine Democratic Senate candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), wrote in 2020 that he had an “antifa supersoldier” label on his “armor,” Axios reports. Save to…
“ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports in Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America, out next Tuesday, that Hunter Biden was furious with former President Obama for taking President…
“I am not a ‘when they go low, we go high’ person. I’m not that kind of girl. If they go low, I’m going to the gutter.” — Texas state…
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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