President Biden has joked to aides that the key to a long and lasting marriage is “good sex,” according to a new book about first lady Jill Biden that casts a spotlight on their 47-year romance, Reuters reports.
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As he prepares to enter the White House again, Donald Trump has not made any moves to divest from his financial interests, the Washington Post reports. Said Dan Fox, former…
Gallup: “After more than two years of grinding conflict, Ukrainians are increasingly weary of the war with Russia. In Gallup’s latest surveys of Ukraine, conducted in August and October 2024,…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) confirmed Robert F. Kennedy did eat McDonalds fast food over the weekend: “I think he did actually eat some of the McDonalds, I am not sure…
“A ballot measure seeking to repeal open primaries and ranked choice voting in Alaska is narrowly on track to lose, after the state Division of Elections counted almost 4,000 absentee…
“People come to me all the time, saying, ‘You’re so negative, and you’re so hard, and you come across with so much vitriol and so much meanness.’ I go, ‘Dude,…
Speaker Mike Johnson is alone in his desire to punt the government funding debate to the first quarter of Donald Trump’s presidency, Punchbowl News reports. Save to Favorites
Politico: “Trump advisers and important congressional players are already discussing the contours of a bill that would use tariffs as a way to partially fund tax cuts. That would be…
“Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on…
“Democrats’ dreams of imposing stiff tax increases on the rich have gone poof, and now some super-wealthy people who campaigned for Donald Trump could get a sweet tax break just…
“President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is considering pairing Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve official, in the Treasury secretary role, with hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as director of the…
“President-elect Donald Trump plans to attend a SpaceX launch in Texas on Tuesday, in yet another demonstration of the billionaire Elon Musk’s increasing closeness to the incoming president,” the New…
Associated Press: “The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response, demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap the country’s nuclear arsenal…
“Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party through an identity crisis and hoping to avoid an ugly intraparty civil war,” CNN reports. “Even without the…
“Dan Osborn, an industrial mechanic who ran as an independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, came up short in his quest to unseat Senator Deb Fischer, a low-profile Republican whose closer-than-expected…
“In his private conversations over the past few days, President-elect Donald Trump has admitted that his besieged choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, has less than even odds of being…
“The working-class voters Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign needed were not moved by talk of joy. They were too angry about feeling broke,” the New York Times reports. “For…
“Immigration advocacy groups and Democratic leaders are seeking to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants by pre-drafting lawsuits that could be filed as soon as…
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Monday introduced a bill to bar transgender women from facilities on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity, The Hill reports. Axios: Congress erupts over…
“The demotion of news media’s role in American life has brought on a profound shift in how facts make their way to voters,” Axios reports. “The scattering and flattening of…
President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate former lawmaker and Fox News contributor Sean Duffy, who also had a turn on MTV’s “Real World,” to be the next secretary of Transportation,…
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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