Nearly two-thirds of Americans fear it will be unsafe to send children back to school this year, according to a new poll for the Financial Times that showed deepening pessimism about the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the US.
Save to FavoritesE.J. Dionne: “The best kind of partisanship, based on those universal values, promotes fierce but constructive arguments. It acknowledges that in a good society, most political differences involve not a…
The House voted 224 to 206 on Thursday to pass the Equality Act, which would expand federal protections for LGBTQ people by prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity and sexual…
FiveThirtyEight has an excellent summary of the major voting restrictions Georgia Republicans are trying to pass in their current session. Save to FavoritesShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare on…
“When Catalina Lauf launched her 2020 GOP campaign for Congress in a district outside of Chicago, it got little notice. Her Wednesday video announcing her 2022 primary challenge to Rep….
Slate: “The United States judiciary does not have enough judges. This is not a partisan gripe but an objective problem that has overwhelmed federal courts and imposed unconscionable delays on…
“The question I’m asked most often is, ‘When will things get back to normal?’ My answer is always honest and straightforward — I can’t give you a date. I can…
Elaine Godfrey: “Assessing political liability for a natural disaster is tricky. Texas is still a Republican state. Despite Democrats’ progress in recent elections, the power-grid collapse of 2021 is not…
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), writing for NBC News: “We save democracy for today, and for the next century, by making government work; by showing people in the most meaningful way…
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) announced his opposition to raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by tweeting a personal story: I started working by busing tables at the…
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested on Fox & Friends that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was backing censorship when she said former President Donald Trump shouldn’t lead the Republican…
Politico: “Some extremists who joined the January 6 insurrection have discussed plans to attack the building during the State of the Union.” Save to FavoritesShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on…
Politico: “The early dynamic — driven by the belief that the old D.C. model of who runs for Senate has changed — means Democrats will not be wanting for candidates…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) apologized for calling President Joe Biden’s embattled budget chief pick, Neera Tanden, a “whack job,” Politico reports. Kennedy explained that he was searching for another word…
Aaron Blake: “The tax cut package they pushed through in 2018, for instance, polled among the most unpopular bills passed — if not the most unpopular — in decades. Their…
The Senate confirmed Gov. Jennifer Granholm to lead the Energy Department, 64 to 35. Save to FavoritesShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare on Email
Jonathan Bernstein: “Senator Ted Cruz (AWOL-Cancun) is on a roll, criticizing Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, for having what he…
Karl Rove: “One approach would be to devote the speech to his anger and grievances over losing the election. He could complain it was stolen and brag about winning more…
Acting Capitol police chief Yogananda Pittman told a congressional hearing there are 35 officers under investigation for the January 6 insurrection “and we do have six police officers that have…
A new University of New Hampshire poll finds Gov. Chris Sununu (R) just ahead of Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in a possible U.S. Senate match up, 48% to 46%. In…
Tom Nichols: “We are living in a time of bad metaphors. Everything is fascism, or socialism; Hitler’s Germany, or Stalin’s Soviet Union. Republicans, especially, want their followers to believe that…
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.
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