“Chinese government agents are increasingly recruiting and hiring private eyes to harass dissidents and forcibly repatriate Chinese-born U.S. and Canadian residents whom Beijing considers criminals,” the Wall Street Journal reports.


“Chinese government agents are increasingly recruiting and hiring private eyes to harass dissidents and forcibly repatriate Chinese-born U.S. and Canadian residents whom Beijing considers criminals,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Caroline Orr Bueno: “One of the goals of disinformation campaigns like the one targeting Cassidy Hutchinson is to discredit the significant points of her testimony by calling into question details…
Punchbowl News: “For the last week, Washington has been frantically trying to discern the political impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade. Democrats say their…
Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, who is author of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service and co-author of I Alone Can Fix It, told MSNBC that…
“Russian President Vladimir Putin shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look ‘disgusting’ if they tried to emulate his bare-torso appearances,” the AP reports….
“New Zealand designated two U.S. far-right groups, the Proud Boys and the Base, as terrorist organizations this month, as the Pacific nation grapples with the potential spread of right-wing extremism…
President Biden may nominate a conservative, anti-abortion lawyer for a lifetime judgeship in Kentucky as part of a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Louisville Courier-Journal reports….
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney writes in USA Today: “Even if Donald Trump were as innocent as the virgin snow that Jan. 6, even if he didn’t…
An editorial in the conservative Washington Examiner declares that former President Donald Trump is a “disgrace” who is “unfit to be anywhere near power ever again.” Meanwhile, the National Review…
Adam Serwer: “During former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, even when Republicans insisted that the assault on the Capitol was an unfortunate consequence of heated rhetoric, most did not attempt…
“There is no difference between this and the Taliban. We must oppose the Christian Taliban. I say this as a Christian.” — Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on Twitter, lashing out…
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will become Israel’s acting prime minister at midnight local time after lawmakers voted Thursday to call for an early election on Nov. 1 and dissolve the…
A new AP-NORC poll finds that 48% of U.S. adults say Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack, while 31%…
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left mainland China for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, arriving in Hong Kong Thursday ahead of the 25th anniversary of the…
“Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House select committee this week increased the criminal exposure former President Donald Trump faces in the Justice Department’s ongoing January 6, 2021, investigation,” CNN reports….
“Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) delivered a searing rebuke of former President Donald Trump and GOP leaders at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Wednesday night,” CNN reports. Said Cheney: “We are…
“The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection issued a subpoena Wednesday evening to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone after blockbuster testimony from a former aide identified…
“Democratic leaders have finalized a revised proposal to lower prescription drug prices for seniors, part of a broader scramble to satisfy Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and resurrect a long-stalled economic…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested late last week that he may be ‘willing and able’ to defend his state’s ban on sodomy if the Supreme Court case that…
“At fundraisers and on the sidelines of events in recent weeks, Joe Biden has been selling Democrats — on Joe Biden for 2024,” NBC News reports. “It’s an unusual sales…
“The White House is unlikely to take up the bold steps to protect women’s right to have an abortion that Democratic lawmakers have called for in recent days,“ Reuters 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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