A new book by The Intercept’s Ryan Grim provides damning new insight into Senate Democrats’ abject failure to meaningfully oppose Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, with Grim reporting that Chuck Schumer instructed his party to basically sit on its hands, lest the Republicans weaponize any attacks on Kavanaugh.

In this week’s episode, The Intercept’s Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim joins to discuss his revelatory new book, “We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement”.

Ryan Grim appearance on the Nicole Sandler show.

Rahm Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Neolib featuring Ryan Grim

How Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns paved the way for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rebecca Burns on The Steve Mnuchin Story Turns out that the fat cat has thin skin. The fat cat in this story is Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The Steve Mnuchin who brought you that $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich. The Steve Mnuchin who worked at Goldman Sachs...

How Can a Small Progressive Publisher Keep Up With the Trump Administration? Via Crowdfunding. And Speed. Not long after he jumped from HuffPost to the Intercept last year, Ryan Grim also wanted to nurture an only-in-Washington pet project. Grim and Alex Lawson, the...

Washington Small Presses Make Their Mark Ryan Grim, a Washington-based journalist and the author of This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America, recently co-founded Strong Arm Press, an independent progressive publishing house. Grim...

Texas Democrat Bucked By National Party To Join Strong Arm Press Laura Moser, a progressive Democratic candidate for a House seat in Texas whose run-in with the party’s officialdom made national waves, is joining the left-leaning publishing house Strong Arm Press as...