Ryan Grim
Cory amplifies 2×Money-in-politics and institutional-power reporting (Drop Site News).
Ryan Grim is an investigative journalist, co-founder of Drop Site News, and co-host of 'Counter Points' on Breaking Points and the podcast 'Deconstructed.' He was previously DC bureau chief for The Intercept and for HuffPost, where he led teams that were twice Pulitzer finalists. He is the author of We've Got People and The Squad; as of 2026 he reports for the reader-supported Drop Site News he co-founded with Jeremy Scahill in 2024.
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Pairing inside-Washington sourcing with an explicitly progressive, adversarial lens, Grim argues accountability journalism should name power and money directly, and that a reader-owned outlet can scrutinize both parties' establishments without access-driven timidity.
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Critics say his framing is openly ideological and movement-aligned, and that his reporting on intra-Democratic and foreign-policy fights can privilege a left narrative over disconfirming detail.
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