Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim is a co-founder and senior investigative reporter at Drop Site News, focusing on the intersection of political power, progressive movements, and conflicts shaped by U.S. policy. His reporting draws a consistent line from domestic party struggles and lobbying campaigns to their consequences in elections, legislation, and wars abroad. On this beat he covers politics through detailed investigations, deep sourcing inside power centers, and close attention to how policy decisions play out on the ground.
Before founding Drop Site News he led Washington bureaus at HuffPost and The Intercept, running teams that produced Pulitzer Prize–winning and finalist reporting on U.S. politics. He continues to edit and report while co-hosting programs like Counter Points and Breaking Points and hosting the podcast Deconstructed, blending daily analysis with longer-form investigations. He also writes a politics newsletter and has authored multiple books on the rise of progressive movements and the history of drug policy, which supply historical context for his current beat.
Progressive Democrats, AIPAC, and Party Power
Grim has a long-running focus on the internal battles within the Democratic Party, particularly clashes between progressive lawmakers and establishment-aligned donors and committees.
At The American Prospect he co-reports pieces that map how AIPAC and allied super PACs coordinate donors in House primaries, target progressive challengers, and pressure Democrats to adopt specific language in support of Israeli military actions. Those stories combine donor network analysis with close reading of party communications, showing how outside money shapes candidate recruitment, messaging, and the space available for dissent inside the caucus.
He follows progressive figures such as Bernie Sanders and members of the Squad as they try to use leverage in Congress, reporting on episodes where they threaten to block leadership priorities in order to secure changes to legislation or personnel. His coverage of the DCCC’s support for left candidates, and of progressive groups stepping back in certain races, underlines his interest in how institutional decisions either bolster or blunt movement energy. Across this strand, he treats contests over endorsements, committee positions, and primary challenges as key to understanding where power actually sits inside the party.
Corporate Influence, Personnel, and Policy
A second strand in Grim’s coverage follows the corporate-to-government pipeline, where consulting firms and tech-linked lawyers move into senior roles shaping policy on antitrust, national security, and economic regulation. His reporting on the consulting firm WestExec describes how a roster of corporate clients translates into staffing influence in the Biden administration, raising questions about who benefits from key White House decisions. Pieces on Merrick Garland’s consideration of a former Facebook lawyer to lead the antitrust division, and on personnel choices that alarm Big Tech critics, show him treating personnel stories as substantive policy reporting rather than insider gossip.
He links these appointment battles back to larger themes of concentrated corporate power and the tension between the administration’s stated goals and the interests of its advisers and donors.
Articles on the role of major corporations during the Trump years, and on staffing patterns in the new administration, reflect an effort to build a long view of how corporate-aligned networks maintain influence across cycles. This focus on personnel and money complements his party-power reporting, presenting lobbying, consulting, and staffing as overlapping channels through which policy gets shaped.
War Reporting, Gaza, Iran, and Yemen
Grim extends his politics beat into conflict zones, often partnering with local reporters and subject-matter experts to document how U.S. policy and allied actions play out in Gaza, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen. At The Intercept he publishes a series of reports from and about Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, covering secret deals with top generals, assassination allegations, and the role of courts and security services in the country’s power struggles.
Other Intercept pieces follow American medical missions trapped in Gaza, health workers refusing evacuation until Israel allows new staff in, and the skewed attitudes documented in surveys of cable news viewers toward the Gaza war.
At Drop Site News he helps lead multi-month investigations such as the account of a U.S. strike that bombed a school in Iran, built from interviews with survivors, first responders, parents, teachers, and doctors. He continues that thread with reporting on Yemeni front lines and Saudi-backed forces losing territory, as well as conversations with analysts like Jeffrey Sachs about how American economic and foreign-policy “delusion” fuels bubbles and diplomatic failure. The work combines on-the-ground testimony with scrutiny of military and diplomatic decision-making, keeping human consequences close to the center of his politics coverage.
Crypto, Technology, and Political Risk
Grim brings the same investigative approach to emerging sectors like cryptocurrency and data infrastructure when they intersect with politics and national security.
His Drop Site News story about Consensys accidentally hiring a North Korean hacker examines how blockchain firms’ global hiring practices can collide with sanctions regimes and geopolitical risk. In American Prospect coverage of a Los Angeles progressive candidate, he notes how a crypto-aligned PAC joins AIPAC’s efforts, underscoring the growing role of digital-asset interests in campaign finance.
He also reports on rural resistance to corporate projects from industrial agriculture facilities to data centers, framing local fights over land use and environmental impact as part of a broader struggle over who controls the benefits and burdens of new technology. These technology-focused stories still sit firmly on his politics beat, using specific cases to show how new industries plug into existing networks of lobbying, donor influence, and local governance.
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A.D. Quig
A.D. Quig follows money and power through Chicago and Cook County government, showing how political decisions, taxes and public spending affect residents and businesses. At the Chicago Tribune, she covers city and county politics, municipal finance, tax policy, budgets and the structures shaping mayoral and council authority. She joined the Tribune in 2022 after covering politics for Crain’s Chicago Business and The Daily Line. Her work examines council power, ethics rules, police leadership, tax incentives, public agencies and pandemic aid. She has reported on data center tax breaks, property tax errors, federal relief spending and the fiscal effects of major development proposals. Quig combines insider government reporting with public accountability journalism. She uses public records, data and budget documents, follows committees and staff negotiations, and explains complex decisions in plain language with precise numbers and a direct link to everyday consequences.
Adam Daly
Adam Daly covers politics for amNewYork with a focus on the inner workings of city and state government and the low-profile forums where power is exercised and negotiated. He reports on commissions and panels that shape how New York is governed, treating charter reform and government efficiency as central political terrain. His coverage of moves to replace an Adams-era charter commission with a new government efficiency panel foregrounds mandate, authority, and what “efficiency” means in practice for agencies and services. He tracks who gains and loses influence when one commission supplants another and which constituencies are being answered to. Daly explains dense procedural questions in clear, reader-facing terms, using specific institutional details and occasional wordplay to connect jargon-heavy reforms to public spending, service delivery, and mayoral power.
Adam Pack
Adam Pack covers Capitol Hill through power struggles, investigations and ideological fights, focusing on how Congress intersects with Donald Trump’s agenda. He is a politics writer on Fox News Digital’s Capitol Hill team, covering Congress, federal elections, legislative battles, election rules, war powers, primaries and intraparty fights. He previously wrote for the Daily Caller News Foundation. His reporting examines deadlines, vote counts, bill language, campaign spending, court rulings, oversight reports, culture clashes and emerging issues such as AI-backed political groups. He has covered FISA reauthorization, defense spending, the SAVE America Act, housing policy, redistricting, candidate absences, primary spending and disputes over sex, gender, religion and race-based caucuses. He reports primarily through news features and investigative-style pieces built around documents, committee reports, court records, unearthed video and specific legislative details. He often co-writes complex Capitol Hill stories and publishes “FIRST ON FOX” exclusives.
Adam Sullivan
Adam Sullivan is a veteran politics reporter for WCAX who connects elections and party disputes to everyday life. He covers statewide races, party primaries, federal representation, political rhetoric, extremism, and accountability across the Upper Valley and neighboring states. His reporting includes Becca Balint’s victory over Molly Gray in the Democratic U.S. House primary to replace Congressman Peter Welch. He also reports when political controversies affect public safety, political culture, towns, and institutions, including a New Hampshire Libertarian Party post endorsing violence against elected Democrats. Sullivan follows cultural stories with civic consequences, such as Noah Kahan’s appeal to fans to stop stealing a Strafford road sign linked to his music. He writes straight news centered on concrete events, official reactions, political context, community impact, and what comes next.