HuffPost: “Attack ads are nothing new in the world of politics, but one campaign video targeting an Arizona congressman just hit a new level of ‘whoa.'”

Save to FavoritesHuffPost: “Attack ads are nothing new in the world of politics, but one campaign video targeting an Arizona congressman just hit a new level of ‘whoa.'”

Save to FavoritesNew York Times: “Mr. Trump posted the threat, then the timing of the deployment, in an apparent attempt to break an impasse between congressional Democrats and the White House over…
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” — President Trump, on Truth Social. Save to Favorites
Bloomberg: “Those privately pressing Trump to strike Iran included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and some conservative commentators, according to people familiar with the matter who…
New York Times: “All across Washington, some of the most powerful people in the federal government are hosting one another for dinner, comparing their rent prices and fixing leaky pipes…
Financial Times: “Jay Powell says that ‘independence and integrity are inseparable’ in the wake of another attack from Donald Trump on the Federal Reserve chair. ” Save to Favorites
Robert Mueller, former special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, died Friday, MS Now reports. Save to Favorites
With the Department of Homeland Security still unfunded and TSA agents not being paid, President Trump threatened to “move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they…
NBC News: “After putting an aggressive redraw of the state’s congressional map before voters, some Virginia Democrats are growing uneasy about its prospects for passage one month out from the…
Politico: “The White House offered additional immigration enforcement concessions to Democrats Friday evening as border czar Tom Homan met a second time with a bipartisan group of senators seeking to…
Miami Herald: “Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the…
Washington Post: “The Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall through iconic national parks, public lands and ecologically sensitive wilderness, empowered by provisions in the One Big…
Los Angeles Times: “It took three decades of battles and lobbying for Cesar Chavez’s name and likeness to grace hundreds of buildings, roads, parks and schools.” “It is taking just…
Wall Street Journal: “Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that…
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has demanded that the GOP-controlled Senate vote to end most mail-in voting. One big problem: Many red-leaning states have embraced the practice, putting lawmakers in…
Washingtonian: “Two years ago, Jeff Bezos brought in controversial media executive Will Lewis to lift the Washington Post out of a post-Trump slump. His calamitous tenure ended in failure—and has…
Washington Post: “The political arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee funneled over $5 million to other groups as part of its work to defeat Illinois Democrats critical of…
Elon Musk offered to pay the salaries of all TSA employees during the partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security. Save to Favorites
“In the run-up to Hungary’s pivotal election in April, a unit of Russia’s foreign intelligence service last month began sounding the alarm over plummeting public support for Prime Minister Viktor…
“With his Atlantic City casinos in duress in the 1990s, Donald Trump saw a potential lifeline in sports betting and aggressively campaigned to legalize it in New Jersey. But when…
“President Donald Trump has long touted low gas prices as an improvement of his administration compared to former President Joe Biden’s administration,” USA Today reports. “Now, as of March 20,…
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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