“The Supreme Court refused to reinstate Alabama’s Republican-drawn congressional map, enabling a court-appointed official to draw the lines for the 2024 election instead,” The Hill reports.
Save to FavoritesPakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pleaded for President Trump to extend tonight’s 8 p.m. deadline by two weeks for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Save to Favorites
Bloomberg: “The world’s most important price for real-world oil barrels soared to a record, the latest evidence of global crude markets that are pricing increasingly scarce supply in the wake…
Washington Post: “Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has no plans to resign or otherwise leave his role at the Pentagon… after a series of internal clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
New York Times: “Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company that recently fought the Pentagon over the use of its technology, has built a new A.I. model that it claims is too…
Carolyn Kissane: “Five weeks into the war… the full effects are still unfolding. Markets have not fully absorbed what sustained disruption could mean. Both sides are now signaling a willingness…
Stat: “The war with Iran has focused the world’s attention on nuclear weapons and oil. Those risks are real. But there is a third category of danger that the conflict…
A senior Iranian source told Reuters: “If the situation gets out of control, Iran’s allies will also close the Bab El-Mandeb Strait.” Save to Favorites
The New York Times reports Iran has stopped efforts to negotiate with the U.S., but Axios reports the U.S. is still claiming progress in the ongoing negotiations. Save to Favorites
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the president “an extremely sick person” for his threats to Iran that a “whole civilization may die tonight.” Save to Favorites
Even before Iran cut off direct diplomacy with the U.S., it was sticking to a hard-line position in negotiations and showed no signs of backing down, the Wall Street Journal…
The House Democratic leadership called for lawmakers to return to Washington immediately to hold a vote to end the Iran war, the Wall Street Journal reports. The statement, signed by…
Washington Post: “President Donald Trump has continued to describe the war against Iran as an unqualified success, saying as recently as Monday that the United States was doing ‘unbelievably well,’…
New York Times: “Coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on military targets in Iran continued methodically on Tuesday, even as President Trump raised his rhetoric threatening the country to apocalyptic levels.”…
Aaron Blake: “Twenty-one months ago, Tucker Carlson told the 2024 Republican National Convention that Donald Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt amounted to ‘divine intervention’ — that God had chosen…
NOTUS: “The White House plans to spend $15 million in National Endowment for the Humanities funds to finance the construction of the massive archway President Donald Trump hopes to build…
Just published: RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise by Isabel Vincent. People Magazine has an excerpt: “Fourteen years after RFK Jr.’s second wife died by suicide, a new biography reveals harrowing…
The Pentagon Pizza Index says an increase in pizza orders to the Pentagon is a leading indicator for major events and is “supported by historical anecdotes and modern traffic data.”…
CNBC: “Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will sit for an interview about Jeffrey Epstein by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 10.” Save to Favorites
JP Morgan warns that if Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues for another couple weeks, it may lead to nationwide gas prices above $5 a gallon, Yahoo Finance…
A new survey finds that approximately 20% of 2024 Trump voters may not vote Republican in 2028, and that almost 57% of voters who switched from Biden in 2020 to…
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.
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