Ryan Grim is an American author and journalist. Grim was Washington, D.C. bureau chief for HuffPost and is the current Washington, D.C. bureau chief for The Intercept. He is also progressive political commentator for The Young Turks, and appears frequently as a guest on The Majority Report with Sam Seder. His writings have appeared in several publications, including Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and Politico. He is the author of This Is Your Country on Drugs and We've Got People. He cofounded Strong Arm Press, an independent progressive publishing house.
After earning his master's degree, Grim worked as a Legislative Analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project. He also worked as a stockbroker in New York City. Grim has written about the history of drug use and drug culture in the United States. He has presented his research on why drugs are popular at certain times in history, and his thoughts on the government's war on drugs. He formerly worked as a junior staffer at the Marijuana Policy Project. Grim joined HuffPost in January 2009. In his role heading a team at HuffPost, reporters on the team twice made finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Towards the end of his tenure at HuffPost, significant leadership changes were occurring, sparked by Arianna Huffington's exit. Grim left his position at HuffPost in 2017 after nine years with the paper, joining The Intercept to head their Washington, D.C. bureau. During the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, Grim was the first to report that CaliforniaSenator Dianne Feinstein had received a letter related to Kavanaugh, which was later revealed to be from Christine Blasey Ford alleging that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school. Grim also reported on former Trump aide Rob Porter's abuse allegations by his ex-wives. He reported early on the 2018 campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In 2016, Grim published a blog post in which he questioned FiveThirtyEight's models and predictions related to the 2016 United States presidential election odds. Grim's criticisms were later repudiated by FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver, and Grim issued corrections to his original blog post. Following the move to The Intercept, Grim and Alex Lawson established Strong Arm Press, a small imprint printing press. Grim decided to launch the press because he felt that the Trump administration was moving too quickly for the standard publishing cycle, which tends to take around a year to publish a book. He launched Strong Arm Press to accommodate shorter, cheaper, lower-volume books with a shorter publishing turnaround-time. The first title published was Out of the Ooze, a profile of Tom Price which reached Amazon's top 100 list. Book are funded through crowdfunding campaigns.
Personal life
Grim was born and lived his early life in rural Maryland.
