Erin Ryan

Nov 4, 2024 | yahoo.com | Erin Ryan

If these unprecedented times had a TV narrator, it would be MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Seventy-five percent newscaster, with a generous sprinkle of history professor and a pinch of dorky humor that runs the gamut from clever to dad, Maddow’s portfolio includes the four books, the most recent of which is Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, as well as hit podcasts. All this in addition to her eponymous MSNBC show she anchors once a week.

Oct 24, 2024 | esquire.com | Erin Ryan

This article contains spoilers for the 1978 horror/adventure film Jaws 2. Also for 1991's The Silence Of The Lambs. Oh, and The Purge. There was a telling moment during former President Donald Trump’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris last month.

Oct 3, 2024 | esquire.com | Erin Ryan

Politifact recently published an item clarifying that “JD Vance’s dog, Atlas, is his actual dog, not a rent-a-dog.” This correction was necessary after a clip circulated widely on social media in which JD Vance quips to Tucker Carlson that his German Shepherd was assigned to him by the Trump campaign to make him seem like a dog-lover. In the larger context of the interview, it was clear that the rent-a-dog moment was yet another of JD Vance’s famously hilarious jokes.

Aug 9, 2024 | esquire.com | Erin Ryan

Pretty much immediately after Vice President Kamala Harris announced that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would be her running mate, the memes started flowing like the Mississippi after a snowy winter in Lake Itaska. With his midwestern accent, unvarnished earnestness, and willingness to unleash Minnesota’s most devastating insult (“weird”) on political opponents, he reminded a lot of people—including me—of their kindly, helpful midwestern dad. Or uncle. Or grandfather.

Aug 6, 2024 | botharetrue.substack.com | Rachel Katz |Amanda Montei |Erin Ryan

I slammed my head into the wall behind me. Well, not the wall exactly – the door jamb, which was worse, better, and, ultimately, neither. Worse because it hurt more, better because that bigger hurt would, I was sure, help replace the numbing dreadrage I was feeling already, and neither because it didn’t help at all. At least not for long.