Reuters: “The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September.”
“The move was to ensure that at least 10% of the population of every country was vaccinated.”


Reuters: “The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September.”
“The move was to ensure that at least 10% of the population of every country was vaccinated.”
McKay Coppins: “Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA hats in their closets and Mar-a-Lago selfies in their Twitter avatar—will privately admit that Donald Trump…
Josh Kraushaar: “From party officials to state legislators, there wasn’t a visible show of support for Trump’s 2024 bid among rank-and-file New Hampshire Republicans in attendance.” “In contrast to the…
“TikTok’s chief executive has agreed to appear before a congressional committee in March, as House Republican lawmakers step up scrutiny of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
“Weapons left behind by U.S. forces during the withdrawal from Afghanistan are surfacing in another conflict, further arming militants in the disputed South Asian region of Kashmir in what experts…
“In just over one month, the Conservative Political Action Coalition is set to hold a large gathering of influential Republicans at its annual conference near Washington, DC,” Insider reports. “Dozens…
“A family friend of Mark Meadows has been charged with accepting an illegal campaign contribution during an ill-fated 2020 run to succeed the former Trump White House chief of staff…
In all of the media coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign trips to New Hampshire and South Carolina over the weekend — and there was a lot of it — there…
“With Republicans in control of the House, Senate Democrats will spend much of the next two years working to confirm as many judges as possible — and they’re facing pressure…
“Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by a prosecutor, but the warning didn’t come from anyone at the Justice Department,” the AP reports. “It…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “has long made no secret that he thinks drug companies and health insurers are ripping off Americans. But now he’s chairman of the Senate health committee,”…
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) plans to reintroduce a version of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act as early as this week and negotiations between him and Sen. Tim Scott…
New York Times: “In the three weeks since Mr. McCarthy ultimately agreed to the price of the portrait, Mr. Gaetz’s role in the melodrama has only entrenched his stature as…
“Chuck Schumer, as he’s known to do, is talking a lot these days. And it’s all aimed at Kevin McCarthy,” Politico reports. “The Senate majority leader is directing heat at…
Politico: “The dozen confidantes he leans on most — to shape his agenda in Tallahassee, assemble an extensive fundraising operation and devise his political future — include his chief of…
Wall Street Journal: “The Justice Department told top Senate Intelligence Committee lawmakers that providing nonpublic information to the panel about the classified material that ended up in the personal possession…
“Debt ceiling negotiations are struck in limbo, as House Republicans demand severe spending cuts without saying where they’d start. Pretty soon, though, their hands will be forced,” Politico reports. “GOP…
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson told the BBC that Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run-up to Russia’s…
Wall Street Journal: “The measures, known as the Berman amendments, date to the last years of the Cold War. They took away the president’s authority to regulate or ban imports…
Wall Street Journal: “That concern suggests the window for Ukraine isn’t indefinite and it needs powerful Western weapons — main battle tanks, other armored vehicles and more air-defense systems —…
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said Sunday he is considering a White House bid in 2024, citing the Granite State’s “live free or die” spirit as a model for…
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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