The head of the Israeli Supreme Court decried what he described as “partial leaks” of a draft decision on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s courts, the Times of Israel reports.
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“As smoke and debris swirled over the Syrian presidential palace, the chatter in the West Wing grew louder: Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control,” Axios reports. Said one White House…
President Trump went after Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), attacking the former lead House impeachment manager as a “thief” and sharing an apparent tax document to make his case that Schiff…
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) warned Russian president Vladimir Putin on Fox News that President Trump is about to put a “whoopin’ on your ass.” Said Graham: “The game has changed…
Former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz — who the Wall Street Journal also said sent Jeffrey Epstein a drawing for his 50th birthday — told Fox News that it’s unlikely that…
Visitors to the United States will need to pay a “visa integrity fee,” according to a provision of the Trump administration’s recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act, CNBC reports….
Minneapolis Democrats chose state Sen. Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, as their nominee in this year’s mayoral election, Axios reports. “The young democratic socialist lawmaker’s victory over two-term sitting mayor…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is visiting Washington this week to argue that artificial intelligence is helping Americans be more productive and to promise to keep AI “democratic” by getting it…
Punchbowl News points out that one problem with President Trump’s push for the Senate to scrap the August recess in order to confirm his nominations: Republicans might be better served…
“The Trump administration wants to visit the Federal Reserve this week to review its $2.5 billion renovation,“ Semafor reports. “President Donald Trump and his allies have identified the project as…
Vice President J.D. Vance is going to the UK for his family’s summer vacation, The Telegraph reports. Save to Favorites
Washington Post: “The U.S. government and partners in Canada and Australia are investigating the compromise of SharePoint servers, which provide a platform for sharing and managing documents. Tens of thousands…
Playbook: “Today, President Donald Trump faces the dawning reality that one of the very factors that helped fuel his rise to political power now threatens it like never before: the…
President Trump responded angrily to a Wall Street Journal story that Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent had personally sought to talk him out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair…
“Democrats on Capitol Hill are furious with the Trump administration and their Republican counterparts for undercutting government funding negotiations, but they aren’t showing a unified strategy for forcing the GOP…
President Trump and his appointees have been accused of flouting courts in a third of the more than 160 lawsuits against the administration in which a judge has issued a…
“President Trump is already fixated behind the scenes on next year’s midterm elections for the House and Senate — unleashing his billion-dollar political operation and personally burrowing into the minutiae…
New York Times: “When The Wall Street Journal published a story detailing a decades-old letter with a lewd drawing that Mr. Trump allegedly sent Mr. Epstein for his birthday, Mr….
New York Times: “The European Union was in bad shape at the start of the first Trump administration. Public trust in the bloc was at a historic low, Britain had…
“Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that Republicans’ redistricting push in Texas could put more seats in play for Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections, even as he promoted fighting fire with…
“When President Trump slapped tariffs on nations across the globe this spring, many economists feared higher prices and spending cuts would flatten the economy,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Consumer…
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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