“The Biden administration has approved the broadest expansion of federal background checks in decades in an attempt to regulate a fast-growing shadow market of weapons sold online that has contributed to gun violence,” the New York Times reports.
Save to Favorites“President Donald Trump said Friday he may not stick to the deadline in early July when massive U.S. tariffs are set to snap back into effect on a slew of…
“The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear sites last weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs likely would not have…
President Trump called New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “a communist,” and said the Big Apple will become “a communistic city” if he is elected mayor in November,…
“If you look at the end of the Civil War — the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day — was it 1869? Or…
“As Congress inches toward final action on the sweeping domestic policy package that President Trump is calling the ‘big, beautiful bill,’ it has come down to this: Republicans are preparing…
“President Trump said Friday he halted plans to potentially ease sanctions on Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei downplayed the success of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear…
“President Donald Trump abruptly announced Friday he was ending trade talks with Canada, objecting to the country’s new digital services tax, which is set to take effect Monday,” the Washington…
“The University of Virginia’s president, James Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step…
“Two major labor unions that backed Andrew Cuomo’s failed Democratic mayoral bid are set to endorse upstart democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani,” Politico reports.Save to Favorites
Despite razor-thin majorities and widespread public opposition, Republicans are poised to pass one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation in decades. Polls show voters strongly oppose the bill’s core…
“An organization representing immigrants fighting President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order wasted little time seeking to recalibrate its legal strategy to block the president’s policy despite the high court’s restrictions…
The Democratic National Committee never commissioned a formal autopsy after the 2024 election. But those who did the work found something more troubling than just low turnout. Democrats have a…
The Atlantic: “The U.S. spy chief, who built her political identity opposing military intervention, is falling in line after the bombing of Iran.” Save to Favorites
“House Republicans are looking on with a combination of horror and frustration as President Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ morphs into something closer to a hulking monstrosity in their eyes,” Axios…
“An ideologically divided Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a Texas law that requires users to verify their age to access porn sites, the first major legal test of statutes in…
“The Supreme Court on Friday sided with a group of parents seeking to withdraw their children from public school lessons featuring LGBTQ+-themed storybooks, a case that mixed parental rights and…
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking her to “denaturalize” and deport New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D). Save to Favorites
“The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to allow President Trump to end birthright citizenship in some parts of the country, even as legal challenges to the constitutionality of the move…
President Trump said Iranian leaders cleared their plan with the U.S. to fire retaliatory strikes against an American airbase in Qatar, and even requested a specific time to attack, the…
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.