Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the social network will no longer run any political advertising from candidates or about particular issues, The Hill reports.


Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the social network will no longer run any political advertising from candidates or about particular issues, The Hill reports.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told Fox News Radio that the Senate was on the right track to push the budget reconciliation package through — but added the party…
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Elon Musk on Tuesday called President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation making its way through Congress “outrageous,” “pork-filled” and “a disgusting abomination,” the Washington Post reports. Said Musk, on X: “Shame…
“Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) chief of staff will soon leave his office,” Axios reports. “It continues a string of staff departures following reports of internal concerns about Fetterman’s mental health…
The White House plans to have President Trump sign another 90-day operating extension for TikTok as the future of the Chinese short-video app get enmeshed in the trade talks and…
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Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was asked by Robert Costa if she’ll ever return to politics: ARDERN: No, I think if you make the decision to leave, then…
“Lee Jae-myung of the center-left Democratic Party won the South Korean presidential election on Wednesday, riding a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his People Power…
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As the world has witnessed a surge in right-wing populist leaders over the last decade, much ink has been spilled analyzing the economic, political, and cultural forces behind their rise….
New York Times: “Legal experts said it was highly unusual for an administration to give a cooperating witness in an ongoing investigation a White House job.” Save to Favorites
New Republic: “The Pentagon’s new press secretary is a chronically online 26-year-old white nationalist who believes in the ‘great replacement’ theory, thinks Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy is an ‘entitled midget,’…
“Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had hit the bridge connecting Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula with explosives planted underwater, in its third attack on the vital supply line…
“The Pentagon is poised to shift its oversight of Greenland by putting it under U.S. Northern Command, a symbolic gesture that would more closely align the island territory with the…
In a moment that underscored just how far the political discourse has slipped, Fox News hosts openly laughed after President Trump suggested that Joe Biden had been murdered in 2020…
President Trump attacked fiscal conservative Rand Paul as “crazy” as he pressed reluctant Republican senators to move forward swiftly with his massive tax and spending package, Bloomberg reports. Trump said…
The White House unveiled President Trump’s official portrait this week, replacing an austere photograph that was released for the president’s inauguration earlier this year. Save to Favorites
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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