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The Atlantic profiles Stephen Miller: “Stephen Miller runs his daily 10 a.m. conference calls—yes, even on Saturdays—less like a government adviser and more like a wartime general. His is the…
“Congressional Republicans say they’re confident that whatever happens next in Venezuela will work out in Americans’ favor,” NOTUS reports. “Their rosy outlook defies the lack of detail available about what…
“A small fleet of ships booked by Chevron Corp. is sailing to Venezuela as the company emerges as the only exporter of the country’s oil following the ouster of President…
New York Times: “Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland. Right now, the United States has one base in a very…
“Forget talk about elections and democracy in Venezuela. The Trump administration has a simple goal there: Back a pro-U.S. government — and prop it up with millions of barrels of…
New York Times: “Even with those outward displays of European-American unity, underlying everything is Mr. Trump’s sudden return to a more imperialist era. Europeans who consider the American intervention in…
The National Rifle Association “is suing its own charitable wing in federal court, alleging that the nonprofit NRA Foundation, which it founded in 1990, is unfairly using the NRA logo…
“President Trump spent his first year back in the White House coming up with new ways to chip away at the Federal Reserve’s political independence and pressure the central bank…
“By all accounts, Cuba is enduring the worst economic moment in the 67-year history of its communist revolution,” the New York Times reports. “While the island nation has endured periodic…
“Russia has sent a submarine and other naval assets to escort an empty, rusting oil tanker that has become a new flashpoint in U.S.-Russia relations,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
“Standing between President Trump and his vision for a stable, U.S.-friendly oil power looms one man: Diosdado Cabello, the belligerent and eccentric de facto leader of Venezuela’s security forces and…
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed a Republican candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Henry Cuellar, the Texas Democrat he pardoned last month,” NBC News reports. Save to Favorites
Playbook: “Every politician in Europe is taking this deadly seriously now, as witnessed by yesterday’s extraordinary joint statement — signed by the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and many more — warning Trump…
Playbook: “We’re only one week into 2026, and already these are seismic moments for America’s relations with the world. A U.S. government publicly threatening a Western ally with military action…
Punchbowl News: “Democrats are reluctant to embrace their most bare-knuckled tool to prevent President Donald Trump from launching further military operations against Venezuela or other nations.” “Instead of threatening to…
“Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisors are advising their staff to prepare for the elimination of 1,000 jobs this month as part of changes that Kristi Noem, the secretary of the…
“Stephen Miller has spent the bulk of his White House career furthering hard-right domestic policies that have resulted in mass deportations, family separations and the testing of the constitutional tenets…
“President Donald Trump said Venezuela will give the U.S. between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil after his administration captured the country’s president and began pressuring the new leadership,”…
“President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet will meet with oil company chief executives Friday at the White House to discuss plans for them to enter Venezuela and drill,”…
Bruce Bartlett: “In some ways, it has been at the heart of American foreign policy since the beginning. A great many of our foreign military interventions were undertaken not 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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