“The Biden administration is expanding a crackdown on untraceable guns and firearms trafficking along the East Coast ‘iron pipeline’ and elsewhere as police departments across the nation fight surging gun violence that’s left a trail of bloodshed already this year,” the AP reports.
Washington Post: President Biden, Mayor Eric Adams and the volatile politics of policing.
New York Times: White House moves to reset relationship with police leaders.
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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.