In February 2010, I sat down to talk health-care policy with Rep. Paul Ryan. Ryan wasn’t yet the lion of the right that he is today, but he had a reputation as an unusually wonkish legislator, and he didn’t disappoint. In the interview , he was clearly well-versed on the issues, fluent in both his ideas and the main criticiques. He was also refreshingly willing to step off-message, as when he ...

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What I learned debating Paul Ryan