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Life of Ryan

In the dun-colored afterglow of Nuzzi-gate, Ryan Lizza is trash-talking his former employer and striking out on his own with a Substack and a notable disregard for nondisparagement clauses—while Nuzzi knuckles down on a book of her own.

Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza
In the inaugural post on his new Substack, Telos, Ryan Lizza averred that Politico wasn’t up to the challenge of the moment—a faux epiphany that had prompted him to strike out on his own. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
April 23, 2025

On Monday morning, Ryan Lizza announced that he had left Politico and was launching his own Substack. “The main reason,” he claimed, was that Politico’s “style of political coverage is not meeting the unprecedented moment of democratic political peril we are facing.” It was the first time in ages that readers had heard from Lizza, who has essentially gone to ground since the emergence of his ex-fiancée Olivia Nuzzi’s “demure nudes” sexting scandal with R.F.K. Jr.