“You wake up in the morning and you wonder what’s happened… But I shouldn’t say more.”
— Former Justice John Paul Stevens, quoted by the Washington Post.


“You wake up in the morning and you wonder what’s happened… But I shouldn’t say more.”
— Former Justice John Paul Stevens, quoted by the Washington Post.
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“President Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations may be coming closer to reality. Until June, deportations had lagged behind immigration arrests and detentions. By the first week of August, deportations…
“The former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged in four separate bribery schemes, according to indictments released this morning by the Manhattan District Attorney’s…
“Texas Democrat James Talarico has built a national profile railing against GOP billionaires in politics — but has quietly accepted funds from a PAC backed by one of the wealthiest…
Bloomberg: “Governments have made an array of concessions and overtures to notch a better deal with Washington, or to simply please Trump…” “That coveted Nobel is a common approach. Several…
“There’s at least one senator supportive of President Donald Trump’s negotiations to take a government stake in chip maker Intel: Bernie Sanders (I-VT),” Punchbowl News reports. “The Trump administration revealed…
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New York Times: “Michael Boulos was an aspiring businessman, just a few years out of college, when he knelt in the White House Rose Garden in January 2021 and asked…
“Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) announced a run for Texas attorney general Thursday, joining a crowded Republican primary field vying to replace Ken Paxton,” the Texas Tribune reports. “A conservative but…
“The United States and European Union have agreed on a ‘joint statement’ providing additional details of the trade deal that they announced last month, but the two sides still face…
“Former Michigan GOP Rep. Mike Rogers lost his Senate race last year by just 19,000 votes, even as President Donald Trump captured the Wolverine State,” Punchbowl News reports. “Rogers is…
Every few years, pundits declare one of America’s two major parties to be in existential crisis. The latest version comes from the New York Times, which suggested yesterday that Democrats…
Wall Street Journal: “When Trump announced on Aug. 11 that he would deploy hundreds of National Guard members and federalize the local police to ‘take back’ the capital, he framed…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions…
A new Politico-UC Berkeley Citrin Center survey found that 70 percent of Democrats believe gerrymandering is “never acceptable.” But a strong majority of Democratic voters across the country think California…
Steve Bannon said Republicans have to stop shying away from town halls in order to sell President Trump’s megalaw, Politico reports. Bannon said Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader…
“Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is the latest target of one of the Trump administration’s new pathways to pursue its perceived enemies: alleged mortgage fraud,” Axios reports. “Trump has waged…
“Democratic Party officials are quietly battling over which state will be the first to vote in the 2028 presidential primary — a fight that’s set to break into the open…
“Israel on Wednesday approved new settlements in the West Bank and announced that it was moving ahead with plans to take over Gaza City, bucking international criticism and defying growing…
“Six months ago, President Trump said the European Union was formed to screw America. On Monday, he lavished praise on European leaders as they gathered around a table at the…
“A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his re-election campaign on Wednesday after giving a journalist cash tucked inside a potato chip bag,” the New York Times…
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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