Richard Barnett, who was seen sitting at a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, has been arrested in Arkansas and charged with entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry, and theft of public property, NBC News reports.
Save to Favorites“Only a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed confident a deal was days away that would end the fighting in Gaza, secure the release of hostages and allow aid…
President Trump said that former President Barack Obama “owes me big” for a Supreme Court ruling that grants immunity for presidential acts, the New York Post reports. Said Trump: “It…
“The U.S. will secure only 90 percent of profits from joint investments with Japan if it takes on a proportional amount of risk and financing, Tokyo said on Friday, as…
A Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis shows the administration’s immigration crackdown will “shrink most worker paychecks, erode gross domestic product (GDP) and spike the already-massive federal government budget deficit,” CNN…
Jon Allsop: “Maybe a certain reserved professionalism is part of what makes Democrats different from Trump, and is thus worth preserving; maybe, given the asymmetric power of the right-wing-media ecosystem,…
“At least 16 people have been killed in armed clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, as tensions over a century-old border dispute spiral into the worst fighting between the two Southeast…
“The Kremlin on Friday ruled out any meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the last stage in signing a peace deal, definitively rebuffing the…
“The Trump administration plans to release more than $5 billion in funding to public schools that it has withheld for nearly a month, a senior administration official said Friday, ending…
The Ethics Committee found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) “failed to fully comply with the Gift Rule by impermissibly accepting a gift of free admission to the 2021 Met Gala…
“Three days after state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R) announced he was dropping his reelection bid, the conservative news site Current Revolt published an interview with a former exotic dancer who…
“Disgraced former Rep. George Santos is set to report to prison on Friday, beginning a more than seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to a laundry list of federal charges that…
“Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of…
Election forecasters are facing a new kind of uncertainty ahead of the 2026 midterm elections: the congressional maps may change. In a typical cycle, the battleground districts are largely locked…
“President Trump on Friday suggested the government might consider issuing rebate checks to some Americans from the tariff revenue collected this year,” Axios reports. Said Trump: “We have so much…
A Gothamist analysis found that more than 70% of voters who fully filled out all five slots on their ranked-choice primary ballots did not rank Andrew Cuomo among their chosen…
President Trump said he had the ability to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, in exchange for her cooperation with ongoing investigations but had not yet…
Washington Post: “During the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, affluent Americans who benefited from tax cuts were more likely to be Republicans. The political…
“Republican leaders are facing growing calls from their members to extend a bucket of funding for the Affordable Care Act that is slated to expire at the end of this…
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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.