Donald Trump again took credit for people using the phrase “Merry Christmas,” and added: “America loves Christmas. Whether you’re Muslim, whether you’re Christian, whether you’re Jewish — everyone loves Christmas.”


Donald Trump again took credit for people using the phrase “Merry Christmas,” and added: “America loves Christmas. Whether you’re Muslim, whether you’re Christian, whether you’re Jewish — everyone loves Christmas.”
Washington Post: “Records show Facebook-funded American Edge backed minority interest groups, conservative think tanks and small business groups to create the appearance of grassroots opposition to antitrust regulation.”Save to Favorites
“The Republican-controlled Arizona State Senate voted 24-3 Monday to conduct an ethics investigation of state Sen. Wendy Rogers, for a social media post suggesting that the suspect in the Buffalo…
David Leonhardt: “Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.” “Of these 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic…
In a rare moment of candor on Russian state TV, retired Russian colonel Mikhail Khodaryonok said the invasion of Ukraine “is not going the way Russia is portraying it, and…
“A House subcommittee opened a hearing on Tuesday on unidentified aerial phenomena observed by military pilots and others, pledging to bring transparency to an investigation of unexplained reports that have…
In the first FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll, 52% of Americans said the most important issue facing the country was inflation. We asked Americans this question in a variety of ways, but regardless…
“Fifteen minutes before Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was due to go on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on March 30, 2021—hours after a bombshell report that he was under investigation…
The defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard “has quickly amassed more online attention than some of the country’s biggest and most pressing news stories, including the leaked Supreme…
The Guardian: “Over at Fox News, however, there was barely any mention of the white gunman’s alleged reasoning for opening fire at a supermarket, killing 10 people and wounding three…
Ian Bremmer writes in his new book, The Power of Crisis, that the globe’s three great threats are the next pandemic, the climate emergency and the unexpected impact of disruptive…
Washington Post: “The tense discussion — which played out in a conference room tucked inside the world’s largest library, where members posed for pictures with historic texts such as the…
Dan Pfeiffer: “Trump did not lead the Republican base to MAGA-Land. He followed them there. He did to the Republican Party what he has done to countless buildings and brands…
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette (R) hinted to Breitbart that she might not support her GOP rivals if she loses today’s primary. Said Barnette: “I have no intentions of…
Tucker Carlson derisively referred to Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) who lost his eye while serving our country as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan, as “eye-patch McCain.” Save to Favorites
“The White House and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos squared off on Monday over the Biden administration’s handling of U.S. inflation and its plans to tax the rich,” Reuters reports. “Starting…
Elon Musk said he plans to vote Republican in the upcoming election cycle after voting “overwhelmingly” for Democrats in the past, Insider reports. Said Musk: “I have voted overwhelmingly for…
“North Korea officially claimed zero Covid-19 cases until last Thursday. Now, Pyongyang says 1.2 million people have feverish, Covid-like symptoms, 50 people have died and the entire country is under…
“Of the 20 separate dates on the 2022 midterm primary calendar, none is more important — and potentially dramatic — than this Tuesday,” Politico reports. “Polls close in Kentucky at…
“Hours after meeting in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Senator Mitch McConnell issued a forceful counterargument to the isolationists in his party who have questioned whether the United States should…
“Elon Musk said his $44 billion bid for Twitter can’t move forward until the company is clearer about how many of its accounts are fake,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
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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.
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