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Affinity Partners, the fund tied to President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has backed out of Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Axios reports. Save to Favorites
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Jonathan Chait: “In a normal presidency, the interviews that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave to Vanity Fair would trigger her resignation, maybe even the president’s impeachment. She…
Peter Wehner: “When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous.” Save to Favorites
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A traveler who posted a photo of his first class boarding pass to brag that he could afford it “because of Trump” ended up finding out someone used this information…
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President Trump announced via Truth Social that he’ll be giving an address to the nation tomorrow night at 9 p.m. ET from the White House. Said Trump: “I look forward to…
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“A longstanding Senate practice has stymied President Trump’s efforts to install his preferred federal prosecutorial candidates in states represented by Democrats, as Republicans refuse to bow to the president’s demand…
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) recently changed her voter registration to Iowa’s 3rd district, despite still representing and running for reelection in the 1st district, the Quad City Times reports. Save…
“It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won’t call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of…
David Graham: “The post was nauseating even by Trump’s standards. Though Reiner was an outspoken Trump critic and longtime progressive activist, no serious reports have tied the deaths to his…
House GOP moderates are threatening to cut a deal with Democrats after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ruled out giving them a vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, Axios…
White supremacist Nick Fuentes told listeners that President Trump’s response to Rob Reiner’s death proves he’s an evil man who believes in nothing. Said Fuentes: “And then he’s a dick…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took questions from reporters: REPORTER: You guys were out for two months during the shutdown. Why has it taken until the end of the year to…
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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