New York Times: “Mark Salter, who led the effort to gather signatures along with the former McCain aides Christian Ferry, Niki Christoff and Joe Donoghue, said they had confined their outreach to staff members, and did not seek out McCain family members.”
Save to FavoritesWashington Post: “While other groups have also been wary about the shots, for instance, communities of color, polling shows that hesitancy has started to wane while GOP resistance to the…
Jonathan Bernstein: “Another conclusion that some pundits reached over the weekend was that Biden has been, once again, underrated. That may be correct, but it also is another example of…
President Biden will deliver a prime-time address on Thursday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the covid “shutdown” and to talk about the role “Americans will play in beating the…
Josh Rogin: “In the spring of 2020, inside the U.S. government, some officials began to see and collect evidence of a different, perhaps more troubling theory—that the outbreak had a…
NBC News: “Bernie Sanders, Josh Hawley, and Amazon don’t often find themselves on the same side of an issue.” “But years of stagnant wages that have failed to keep up…
David Leonhardt: “It’s one of the biggest mysteries about Covid-19: Why has the death toll been relatively low across much of Africa and Asia?” “The virus has killed a fraction…
In an announcement that instantly shook up Missouri’s political landscape, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt said Monday morning he would not run for reelection in 2022, the St. Louis Post Dispatch…
Jonathan Chait: “Ironically, it is the misleading nature of pro-filibuster propaganda that has enabled Manchin to co-opt its themes. Filibuster advocates present the device as a requirement to allow ‘debate,’…
Reuters: “The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on Wednesday on a pair of bills to expand background checks before gun purchases, two years after a similar House…
Julian Zelizer notes that in March 2020, every Senate Democrat voted for President Trump’s pandemic relief bill. And in December 2020, nearly every Senate Democrat voted for Trump’s second relief…
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a bid by former President Trump to nullify his electoral loss in Wisconsin, rejecting the former president’s final pending appeal over the results of…
“Democrats passed an unapologetically progressive stimulus bill through the Senate this weekend, one that Sen. Bernie Sanders has called ‘the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in…
“The U.S. is on course for an employment boom this year once pandemic restrictions ease and the economy reopens, according to economists at Goldman Sachs,” Bloomberg reports. NBC News: Yellen…
A must-read from Jelani Cobb: “Despite the United States’ reputation as the most stable democracy in the world, most of the political parties born in this country, including major ones,…
Wall Street Journal: “The U.S. and South Korea have reached agreement on a new accord that would resolve a yearslong dispute on how to share the cost of American troops…
Playbook: “The twin crises of disease and recession boosted support for government intervention well beyond what has been tolerated for decades; Donald Trump and the GOP’s own support for the…
Last June, 60% in a USA Today/Ipsos Poll described George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police as murder; that percentage has now dropped by double digits to 36%. Save…
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Axios that he’ll block President Joe Biden’s next big legislative package — $2 trillion to $4 trillion for climate and infrastructure — if Republicans aren’t…
“After 15 years allowing voters to cast absentee ballots without excuses, Georgia Republicans say the practice has got to go,” NBC News reports. “The Republican-controlled state Senate votes Monday on…
Washington Post: “Everywhere, there are signs seen and unseen that Minneapolis is bracing for the landmark trial of the former police officer charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s…
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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