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Democracy Is On the Ballot

October 19, 2018 at 12:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Richard Clarke, national security analyst and host of the Future State podcast, joins Chris Riback for a discussion on the future of our country.

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And don’t miss our live show at Harvard’s Kennedy School on October 26.

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Who’s Actually Running Our Government?

October 12, 2018 at 1:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michael Lewis joins Chris Riback for a conversation about his excellent new book, The Fifth Risk.

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And don’t miss our live show at Harvard’s Kennedy School on October 26.

Filed Under: Conversations, Political Books Tagged With: Michael Lewis

The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

October 2, 2018 at 11:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rebecca Traister, author of a must-read new book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger joins Chris Riback for a discussion on how thee role and impact of women’s anger is evolving in American politics.

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What It’s Like to Cover the Trump White House

September 26, 2018 at 10:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Major Garrett, author of Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride and chief White House correspondent for CBS News, joins Chris Riback for a first hand look into one of the strangest presidencies in U.S. history.

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Filed Under: Conversations Tagged With: Major Garrett

Trolling Trump on Leadership

September 18, 2018 at 12:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership in Turbulent Times, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of presidential leadership in the age of Donald Trump.

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The Most Dangerous Branch

September 7, 2018 at 11:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

With the Senate confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh as the backdrop, David Kaplan, author of the new book, The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court’s Assault on the Constitution, talks to Chris Riback about the role of the Supreme Court in American life.

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Filed Under: Conversations Tagged With: Brett Kavanaugh

Who Is Mike Pence?

August 30, 2018 at 11:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner, authors of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence, join Chris Riback for a discussion on the man next in line to be President of the United States should something happen to President Trump.

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Filed Under: Conversations Tagged With: Mike Pence

Jason Kander on Lessons In Everyday Courage

August 21, 2018 at 11:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jason Kander, who proved he could rebuild a combat weapon blindfolded and is currently running for Kansas City Mayor, joins Chris Riback on the podcast this week.

Kander is also the author of a new book, Outside the Wire: Ten Lessons I’ve Learned in Everyday Courage.

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Filed Under: Conversations Tagged With: Jason Kander, Kansas City

A GOP Strategist on the ‘Worst President Ever’

August 10, 2018 at 11:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Republican strategist Rick Wilson, author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, talks to Chris Riback about Donald Trump, who he calls “the worst president ever.”

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What, Exactly, Is Trumponomics?

July 28, 2018 at 7:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell joins Chris Riback on this episode to help us better understand Trumponomics — and whether bad economics might just be good politics.

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Filed Under: Conversations, Economy

‘I Don’t Think He’s Fit for Office’

July 20, 2018 at 4:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

After the most humiliating week of Donald Trump’s presidency, former NATO Ambassador Nicholas Burns joins Chris Riback for a discussion of what just happened and the damage Trump is doing to the U.S. position in the world.

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Filed Under: Conversations, Foreign Affairs

Understanding Obama

July 13, 2018 at 2:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Brian Abrams, author of Obama: An Oral History, joins Chris Riback for a discussion on the Obama years — and how understanding them are critical to understanding politics today.

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Filed Under: Conversations, Political Books

What Comes Next for Democrats

June 29, 2018 at 10:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama White House communications director, co-host of Pod Save America and author of Yes We (Still) Can, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of what comes next for Democrats in the Trump era.

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Filed Under: Conversations, Democrats

The Fifty-Year Fall of America

June 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Steven Brill, author of Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall — and Those Fighting to Reverse It, joins Chris Riback on Political Wire Conversations for a discussion on what’s wrong with the United States.

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Filed Under: Conversations, Political Books

What’s Happening to the Republican Party?

June 15, 2018 at 2:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

GOP strategist Scott Jennings joins Chris Riback on Political Wire Conversatons for a discussion on the current state of the Republican party.

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Does Trump Think He’s a King?

June 12, 2018 at 12:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman joins Chris Riback for a discussion about the confidential 20-page memo by President Trump’s lawyers which argued that he can stop special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

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Vladimir Putin’s Public Enemy Number One

June 1, 2018 at 1:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

If you know Bill Browder’s story already, you surely won’t mind hearing his conversation with Chris Riback. It’s extraordinary.

If you haven’t heard it before, listen here:

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Trump’s Assault on Intelligence

May 25, 2018 at 9:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

General Michael Hayden, former CIA director and author of The Assault on Intelligence, joins Chris Riback for a conversation on U.S. national security in an age of lies. It’s a great, though unsettling, conversation.

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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