“An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of Donald Trump’s publicly traded company to stay in business, according to a new regulatory filing,” CNBC reports.


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David Graham: “Federal officials have Adams, a Democrat, where they want him: They’ve ordered that the federal criminal charges against him be suspended, and now he has no choice but…
“Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has quietly explored running in this spring’s Republican primary as he searches for a path to a second term,” the New York Times…
Andrew Sullivan: “The words ‘shock and awe’ describe the first month of the second Trump administration pretty well, it seems to me. It’s been a blitzkrieg of executive orders, mass…
Jay Caspian Kang: “If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing…
“The White House says it will limit Associated Press journalists’ access to the Oval Office and Air Force One, an escalation of a brooding conflict between the Trump administration and…
Yair Rosenberg: “In his first term, Trump could be dismissed as an accident of the Electoral College, someone to be humored domestically and internationally before the resumption of traditional elite-managed…
Irish Times: “During a joint press conference held by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump appeared to turn angrily away from Musk’s son…
“In just one speech by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week, the most powerful member of NATO has thrown the world’s biggest military alliance into disarray, raising troubling questions…
“Hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile were fired Thursday in the wave of mass Trump administration terminations,” ABC News reports. Save to Favorites
Stat: “Senior officials were informed in meetings Friday morning that roughly 5,200 people on probationary employment — recent hires — across agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the…
“The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City…
New York Times: “More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.” Save to Favorites
“A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on remarks he made at NATO this week about the terms of a potential Ukraine-Russia peace deal, saying his job was simply to “introduce…
“If he doesn’t come through… I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying: ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’” — Border czar Tom Homan, threatening New…
The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination,” the AP reports. Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham has “ordered his staff to stop engaging in media campaigns and…
Anne Applebaum: “This appears to be DOGE’s true purpose. Although Trump and Musk insist they are fighting fraud, they have not yet provided evidence for their sweeping claims. Although they…
The Economist: “Mr Trump is not just returning to the ways of American presidents before the Watergate scandal, which led to reforms meant to insulate the Justice Department and FBI…
President Trump’s historic mugshot has apparently been given a prominent spot in the White House, as seen in the background of a photo shared by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…
In a stunning reversal, Apple and Google quietly restored TikTok to their app stores last night—despite a federal law explicitly banning it. Nothing about the law has changed. It passed…
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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