Ryan Lizza
The New Yorker
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Ryan Lizza
Ryan Lizza, an on-air contributor for CNN, was The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent from 2007-2017. From 1998-2007, he was a political correspondent for The New Republic, and, before that, he was a correspondent for GQ and a contributing editor at New York. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Monthly, and The Atlantic Monthly. Since 1998, he has covered most of the… → Read More
Ryan Lizza: Politics News and Analysis
Commentary and analysis of Donald Trump, Washington, politics, and more. → Read More
How December Could Make or Break the Trump Presidency
Ryan Lizza on President Donald Trump’s first year in office and the December legislative agenda that will be crucial for the White House and Republican Party. → Read More
A Russian Journalist Explains How the Kremlin Instructed Him to Cover the 2016 Election
Ryan Lizza on the Russian journalist Dimitri Skorobutov’s description of how the Kremlin directed state media to cover the contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. → Read More
The G.O.P.’s “Boil the Frog” Strategy to Save Trump
After a year of incremental Trump-Russia revelations, the press and public’s capacity to be shocked by the details of the scandal may be diminishing. → Read More
How Donald Trump Taught Conservatives to Defend Roy Moore
Republicans’ defenses of the Senate candidate are shocking, but they square with Trump’s when it comes to the extremes to which partisanship now pushes people. → Read More
Why Virginia Is a Warning for Republicans Nationwide
Has the G.O.P. repeated the devastating mistake that the Party made in California a generation ago? → Read More
How Trump Helps Russian Trolls
Ryan Lizza on recent hearings over Russian trolls and bots that spread fake news on social media, and how Donald Trump has ignored this national-security risk. → Read More
What the Russia-Inquiry Revelations Tell Us About Trump-Campaign Collusion
No definitive proof of foreign coördination emerged, but Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, stands accused of trying to sway U.S. politics for Russia. → Read More
The Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Is the First Person Charged in the Mueller Investigation
On Monday, the first charges arising from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign and the Russian government became public. Below, New Yorker writers offer some initial reactions to the news. → Read More
Paul Manafort, the Former Trump Campaign Chairman, Is Charged in the Mueller Investigation
On Monday, the first charges arising from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign and the Russian government became public. → Read More
As Mueller Pushes Ahead, Trump Distracts
Ryan Lizza on President Trump’s attempt to shift blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. → Read More
The Trump Plan to Combat Opioids
Ryan Lizza responds to President Trump's plan to combat the Opioid Crisis → Read More
The Limits of the Flake-Corker-McCain Rebellion Against Trump
Unless moderate Republicans block tax reform and other elements of Trump’s legislative agenda, their criticism of the President will have little impact. → Read More
John Kelly and the Dangerous Moral Calculus of Working for Trump
The White House chief of staff is the latest example of how the President sullies the reputations of those who work with and for him. → Read More
How Trump Is Empowering the Democrats
Beneath Trump’s zigging and zagging on immigration and Obamacare is a dynamic between the President and Democratic leaders that deserves close attention. → Read More
The Secrecy Undermining the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia Probe
Ryan Lizza writes about the covert Russia investigation of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is led by Richard Burr and Mark Warner. → Read More
Washington’s Ritualized Response to Mass Shootings
Ryan Lizza writes about Donald Trump’s response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas at a Jason Aldean concert on Sunday evening, which was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. → Read More
How Trump Lost in Alabama But Is Still Winning the Wider War
Ryan Lizza writes about the lessons for Republicans from Roy Moore’s victory in an Alabama Senate special election, over Luther Strange, the candidate endorsed by Donald Trump. → Read More
How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts
Instead of crafting a revenue-neutral tax reform, Republicans have embraced a vague proposal that could add more than a trillion dollars to the deficit. → Read More