Ryan Lizza

Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Republican pollster, is now Trump's third campaign manager. Reporter Ryan Lizza, who profiled Conway for The New Yorker, looks at her background and motives.

Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, talks about campaign politics.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren isn't running for president, but she is having an effect on the Clinton campaign. The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza explains how and why.

How was election money spent in the 2014 midterms? Plus, looking ahead to 2016.

Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, looks at Chris Christie's development as a politician and how his political future is being challenged by Bridgegate.

New Yorker staff writer Ryan Lizza traces the history of the National Security Agency’s intelligence programs, from 9/11 to today. For his latest article, “State of Deception.” He speaks with key players in the intelligence community, including Senators Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden, and Matthew G. Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and a key member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has for years been fighting to get the N.S.A. to be more forthcoming about domestic spy programs. Lizza looks at how the leaks from Edward Snowden may provide the momentum for changing the law.

Revelations by former N.S.A. contractor Edward Snowden have set of a fierce debate over national security and personal privacy, and the debate has become particularly intense for the ...

New Yorker staff writer Ryan Lizza gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to get the current immigration bill onto the Senate floor. In his article “Getting to Maybe,” in the June 24 issue of The New Yorker, he interviews members of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group of senators who crafted the bill and championed it.

Details continue to emerge about how the Justice Department is investigating leakers and the reporters they collaborate with (including a long report in the Washington Post about Fox's James Rosen). Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker discusses the effect on journalists and the balance between revealing sensitive information and preserving freedom of the press.

Governor Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate. To react to this choice and what it'll mean for the Republican ticket, we have Reihan Salam, columnist at The Daily and blogger for National Review Online's The Agenda. Then, Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, discusses Paul Ryan's background and record. 

Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, looks ahead to what President Obama might try to accomplish if elected to a second term.

Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, breaks down the results from Super Tuesday and talks about the dynamics of race for the Republican presidential nomination. His latest article, “Life of the Party," appears in the March 12 issue of the magazine.

New Yorker staff writer Ryan Lizza gives an in-depth look at the first three years of Obama’s Presidency, and through interviews and internal White House memos —which have never been released to the public—with Obama’s handwritten notes, reveals how the President struggles with important decisions. The article “The Obama Memos” is in the January 30 issue of The New Yorker. Ryan Lizza will also report on what’s going on in Florida during that state’s primary.

Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, talks about the Republican candidates, the president's speech and his New Yorker piece on post-post-partisanship.

With the GOP divided over the HPV vaccine issue that has come up in the presidential primary race, Washington correspondent for the New Yorker magazine Ryan Lizza discusses the politics of both sides.

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President Barack Obama is a different leader than candidate Barack Obama. What remains difficult to discern is just how different both men are on matters of U.S. foreign policy. Critics to both the left and the right of the president have voiced frustration at the administration's obstinate refusal to state a foreign policy doctrine. Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker describes how recent events in the Middle East may be creating an Obama doctrine on its own.

Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine, talks about the failure of climate change legislation this year and where it stands in the current political debate. 

The 2010 midterms are heating up, but none of the candidates seem to be talking about global warming. For the latest installment of The Big Picture, New York Times columnist Andy Revkin joins us to talk about why climate change and the environment are MIA in this election, along with Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent. His article “As The World Burns” can be found in the most recent issue of the magazine.

Find out what Sen. Barack Obama can learn from Colorado’s Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, who’s presiding over a left-leaning political transformation of his state. Ryan Lizza has written an article in the Sept. 1 issue of the New Yorker called "The Code of the West."