Erin Gloria Ryan

Erin Ryan is a Daily Beast columnist, the host of Crooked Media’s Hysteria podcast, and a writer for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She is based in Los Angeles.

GROANCORE

Fox News’ New Comedy Shows Are Safe Spaces for Hack Humor

I watched hours and hours of Fox Nation’s “edgy” content. The only things that triggered me were the abominably poor joke constructions.

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NO RECESS

Congress Is a Middle School Operating In a Retirement Home

Matt Gaetz’s coup against Kevin McCarthy exemplifies Republicans’ childish backbiting and thirst for nihilistic dysfunction.

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BURN, MAN, BURN

Eating the Rich Sounds Pretty Good to Most of Us Right Now

From Burning Man schadenfreude to an angry populist hit song, there’s a palpable animosity for the uber-wealthy we haven’t seen since the 2008 financial crisis.

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STEPPING ON ALL THE RAKES

Ohio Shows GOP Is Going ‘Streisand Effect’ on Abortion

Republicans know abortion is popular, so they tried to make it harder for voters to legalize it. Now they’re losing on reproductive rights—in state after state.

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