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‘Ahead of the News Cycle’

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I just received a really nice email from a Dartmouth professor:

Three days ago I renewed my membership for the first time and was very happy to do so. Although I have not yet engaged in the comment section, I visit your site a number of times a day.

I think one part is underappreciated in your commentaries and your selections: they are often slightly ahead of the news cycle. You have a really good gut feeling for what’s in the air. So much so that I feel inspired to write OpEds after I read your posts (even though I’m an academic from a completely different field).

In this essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books from today, for example, I quoted your comments from last September about Trump shredding our norms. I hope you forgive me that I don’t give enough credit in my essay on justice for all to how much Political Wire has shaped my perspective. That Trump is symptom of a larger crisis is often your point as well.

And this one:

I’m so hooked. I check this website probably ten times a day. Thanks for doing such a great job.

If you’re not yet a member, please join for just $5 a month or $50 a year.

Thanks to everyone who supports Political Wire!

About Political Wire

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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