And so dear friends, I'm afraid the Woodstock of technocrats, Warren versus Pete, wonk on wonk violence is not to be.
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She isn't "too" anything, rather a "wonk" practicing compassionate capitalism.
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But back then she was merely an academic and policy wonk.
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Tax complexity, which is a wonk obsession, certainly merits some concern.
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The mandate, in other words, was a story of wonk hubris.
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Mr Obama was a wonk with a gift for verbal simplicity.
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This has an undeniable logic, and has captured the wonk imagination.
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He would speak in wonk and throw out acronyms during prep.
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" "He's a policy wonk; he's very knowledgeable on the policy issues.
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He is an alleged policy wonk who, whether you agree with
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Her authenticity is being a policy wonk and working for us.
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"We don't need a policy wonk as president," Hunter told Politico.
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Ryan, the accidental Speaker, is a policy wonk above all else.
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He's a solid center-left wonk with tons of sensible ideas.
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" A third, wearing glasses, was a "swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb.
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He is not a politician, or a wonk, or a bureaucrat.
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Lewis runs a blog and a podcast, both called Arms Control Wonk.
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ALEX EVANS is a development wonk with an engaging streak of vulnerability.
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Debt relief is not an idea that rose from the wonk class.
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Often chided as "policy wonk in chief," intellectual discourse is his staple.
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The reason this matters is familiar to every policy wonk in Washington.
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Warren's time in the Senate cemented her image as a policy wonk.
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If you're a wonk: Overturning the net neutrality rules won't happen overnight.
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Today, Warren is creating a symbol out of being a policy wonk.
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And this is where the two forms of "wonk" cards come in.
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Yes, it's true that nobody is mistaking Trump for a policy wonk.
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He is no policy wonk, and prefers fiery speeches to ten-point plans.
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Ann Romney: They're able to communicate on this very intellectual policy-wonk level.
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" Timothy Shenk looks at the rise of policy in politics in "Wonk Republic.
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It makes sense that our parenting expert du jour is a data wonk.
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Republicans are gearing up for a fight with Washington's most respected budget wonk.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren embraced her "warrior wonk," going after everyone on the stage.
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Now imagine what all this will look like to a future policy wonk.
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For instance, Reagan (nice guy — wins) was more likable than Mondale (wonk — lost).
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer isn't a lawyer or an immigration wonk.
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As a presidential candidate, he positioned himself as an economic and foreign policy wonk.
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She serves as Chief Policy Wonk of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.
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He has never been known as a policy wonk or defender of objective truth.
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Obama, in contrast, was a policy wonk who liked to get into the weeds.
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And many consider her to be more of a policy wonk than a leader.
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Washington's presence was felt at the conference, but this was no D.C. wonk-fest.
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Andy Slavitt has been called a renegade, a rabble rouser and a policy wonk.
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For Clinton, Kaine satisfied the first requirement—a kindred wonk, with few obvious blemishes.
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" — Jason Furman Jason Furman has been described as the "wonkiest wonk in the White House.
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" The word "strategic" in that last line is very important: It's wonk-speak for "nuclear.
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Do you ever have to fight the urge to go too far with the wonk?
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NO WONK ASKED to describe their ideal health system would reach for the adjective American.
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There is no budget wonk in Washington with a résumé as thick as Alice Rivlin's.
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Too often Hillary Clinton—a lifelong policy wonk—sounds like a set of PowerPoint slides.
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Warren proved her initial detractors wrong by fully embracing the role of the policy wonk.
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He was a policy wonk more known for his love of PowerPoint presentations than people.
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ALAN HERSHEY Pennington, N.J. To the Editor: The Trump voter is not a policy wonk.
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"Before you had to be somewhat of an analyst or a wonk," Mr. Chandler said.
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" Answering an education question, Biden apologized in advance, "I'm going to sound like a wonk.
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But for Mr. Trump, never much of a policy wonk, it was an eye opener.
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"She is a thinker, a policy wonk and a hard worker," the editorial board wrote.
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Like Warren, Ryan built himself up by cultivating an image as a smart policy wonk.
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Overhauling the code has long been a goal of Ryan, a self-described policy wonk.
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Booker spoke compellingly on a range of issues without getting lost in policy-wonk weeds.
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One progressive policy wonk thought a drug prices bill might actually be the first Democratic priority.
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He might try to provide substance on the campaign trail, but he's hardly a policy wonk.
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Clinton is known to be a policy wonk and in some ways a classic student overachiever.
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Depending on the moment, he was an awkward combatant, a former governor and a policy wonk.
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Clinton's campaign, saddled with a policy wonk candidate, felt penalized for playing by the old rules.
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Distrust any policy wonk who claims to speak for a grandee, though, says a prominent researcher.
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From the standpoint of an intellectual or a policy wonk, the GOP's restive base looks incoherent.
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If you're a wonk, maybe Orbital ATK, or Blue Origin, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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In non-wonk speak, these are plans that, on average, cover 58 percent of enrollees' cost.
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Even if he were the policy wonk he pretends to be, he couldn't do the impossible.
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In 2016, she has embraced her inner wonk and bet that voters would do the same.
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Photograph by Zachary Zavislak for The New Yorker Andrés remains a policy wonk in chef's clothing.
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But the freshman lawmaker has proven herself more than a wonk in her time in Washington.
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Warren has become known as the liberal policy wonk of this field through her detailed policy papers.
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It was in those meetings that I learned Congressman Price was, like me, a true policy wonk.
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But the proposals should not be limited to narrow policy targets that engage the wonk class alone.
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And Speaker Paul Ryan, a self-styled policy wonk, doesn't have much in common with Trump, either.
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"She is a thinker, a policy wonk and a hard worker," the paper&aposs editorial board wrote.
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I'm as much of a policy wonk as anybody; I've been teaching public policy for 40 years.
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Chris Webber is a security wonk, a cloud evangelist, a product guy and a recovering IT professional.
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Open Markets' Matt Stoller, who can transition seamlessly from policy wonk to Twitter thug, sat near the front.
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As one Labour wonk admits, Brexit is now "an identity issue as much as a trade-relationship issue".
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But Clinton's public perception has always been that she is not warm and is only a policy wonk.
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Clinton prepares for unpredictable Trump at debate Chen, a Republican policy wonk who worked for former Massachusetts Gov.
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This interactive visualization was created by Max Galka, an entrepreneur and data wonk based in New York City.
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Hillary had her chance to tell us who she is, and who she is is a policy wonk.
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Down the hall from St. Clair, a reproductive rights policy wonk keeps a Kevlar vest on her bookshelf.
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She is a policy wonk, but Mr. Trump has little interest in a wide-ranging debate on issues.
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"There're people who don't even claim it's a trial," says pharmaceutical executive and anti-aging wonk John Furber.
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She has been very smart about tailoring her message and movements around who she is: a proud wonk.
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If you are a health wonk, you'll know these as the 3R's: risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors.
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Aaron Reuben is a science writer, recovering policy wonk, and neuropsychologist in training who's exploring just these questions.
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Mayor Naheed Nenshi is a quick-witted urban wonk, and the city has a diverse and educated population.
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Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in 2017 to repeal Obamacare — despite no history of being a health care wonk.
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He plumbed the depths of an issue, but understood that such proficiency only made him a policy wonk.
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Longtime conservative health wonk Avik Roy argues that this makes the bill a step forward for the poor.
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KS: Okay, so let's go again, Geek and Wonk, we're going to go to things regular people like.
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I certainly agree with the common wonk sentiment that there are lots of other, better policies out there.
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He's not a policy wonk who has the disposition to tune out the street theater and focus on issues.
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Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives and chief Republican policy wonk, has something very different in mind.
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Angola, in wonk-speak, suffers from a "resource curse", in which plentiful natural resources lead to worse economic growth.
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Clearly Mr Peston is far less convincing as a policy wonk than as a scourge of his erring colleagues.
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It's this drive that makes Gross' value-add go farther than than that of a simple machine-learning wonk.
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For me, as someone who's more of a policy wonk, it's really changed the way I think about policy.
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That's the question every policy wonk who cares about climate change has been asking since election night in November.
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But there is a possibility that it is another weapon entirely, researcher Fabian Hinz writes in Arms Control Wonk.
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Before he was speaker, Ryan was often described, however dubiously, as a serious policy wonk who cared about details.
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Warren was an unusual political phenomenon by then: a policy wonk who was also a force and a symbol.
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"Next to all these guys on the stage last night, Herman Cain looks like a policy wonk," he added.
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The weeklong plan is designed with real people in mind, so you don't need to be a privacy wonk.
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He's also just obviously more of an old-school back-slapping relational politician than a detail-oriented policy wonk.
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"Some of that accords with their small government ideals," Center for Progressive Reform regulatory wonk James Goodwin told me.
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Neil Irwin had a great piece in the Upshot today talking about the wonk gap that's happening right now.
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RH: Yeah, really, really interesting guy, very smart and really policy focused rather than political, like people used to make fun of him because he would get, be on the senate floor almost always accompanied by a series of charts and graphs going through ... KS: The wonk, it's a wonk - RH: Exactly.
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With more and better data, statisticians and researchers will wonk this out over the next few days, weeks, and months.
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Wonky debates over policy are important, but so is how you define your party's position to the non-wonk population.
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Every interaction with a health system, insurer, actuary, clinician, researcher, policy wonk, or other expert is an opportunity to learn.
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A former CIA operative, Hurd has made a name for himself in his first term as a cybersecurity policy wonk.
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Paul Ryan is a pretend wonk who throws around numbers to impress the likes of Mitt Romney and Donald Trump.
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Satellite imagery supplied to the Arms Control Wonk blog showed the explosion from the nuclear test visibly displaced the mountain.
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Yes, Mrs Clinton is a policy wonk, her team has decided to say, but that is how she expresses love.
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Ryder, a longtime national GOP committeeman from Tennessee, is known as a policy and procedures wonk, according to RNC officials.
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The speaker, often deemed a policy wonk, did not delve into the weeds or defend the controversial border adjustment tax.
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Still, even if you're not a billionaire, a CEO or a policy wonk, there are good reasons to pay attention.
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Ryan is a policy wonk at heart, with a lifelong belief that lower taxes are better for America's working families.
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Unless you're a scientist or policy wonk, figuring out who's actually making a difference can feel like an impossible task.
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She is a self-admitted policy wonk who has put her meaty policy prescriptions front and center in the campaign.
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A self-described policy wonk, she grew up somewhere else, Atlanta, and got a taste of politics as a student.
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Last night, Jon Cohn, a liberal health wonk, tweeted something apt: None of the liberal wonks I follow like this bill.
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Fans of "Arms Control Wonk", Mr Lewis's podcast, will expect notes of absurdist and scornful humour; they will not be disappointed.
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And there's even some evidence that alienating the wonk class isn't a bug that comes from Sanders's ambitions but a feature.
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May's tenure as home secretary also earned her a reputation as a hard-working "wonk," serious about issues and policy intricacies.
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WIRED tracks his progression from nerdy high school student to policy wonk to head of the country's top telecom regulator. Plus!
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OSI has 60 days since MongoDB's new submission to make a choice: "Wonk" here is meant in the best possible way.
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And second, sweeping wonk systems for revenue neutrality will not do much to overcome political resistance, especially in the early stages.
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The NDP leaned as hard as it could into wonk-approved progressive policy but couldn't seal the deal in the suburbs.
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But Warren proved her critics and doubters wrong in the following months by leaning into her reputation as a policy wonk.
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Kevin Brady (R-TX) who, unlike a normal Republican, really is a policy wonk with big ambitions and strongly held views.
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"Graham-Cassidy would lead to far more disruption than any of the previous Republican plans," argued UCLA healthcare wonk Mark Peterson.
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Trump, who didn't exactly run as a wonk, aired a more typical number of policy-focused ads compared with past elections.
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They include Mr. Min, a former adviser to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York who calls himself a housing finance wonk.
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" Yuval Levin, a prominent conservative policy wonk, wrote in National Review that the Texas lawsuit "doesn't even merit being called silly.
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Mr. Bredesen, a veteran statewide campaigner known as a policy wonk, prepared stacks of paper detailing his history with Silicon Ranch.
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Deep down, the star of "All in the Family" and the director of "The American President" was a liberal policy wonk.
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Our House Speaker Paul Ryan is a self-proclaimed "tax wonk," (and he has already announced his plan to privatize Medicare).
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To the wonk in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, these magazines were the thrumming center of the policy conversation in Washington.
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Conservative health wonk Chris Jacobs put together a list of Obamacare rules that could potentially fall under this use of the CRA.
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A policy wonk with good working-class roots and connections and just has the ability to communicate with every man and woman.
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On the other side, Sanders obtains a reputation for economic illiteracy in virtue of taking hits from Democrats' more vocal wonk community.
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He is the founding publisher of the blog Arms Control Wonk, and a respected expert in the field of non-proliferation policy.
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At fundraisersThey roar approval at his Latin jokesAnd shun me as a dismal policy wonk Lady MacGove (testily)Always with the hesitation.
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Wonk that she is ("If you're unconvinced that friends are worth it, consider the data," she writes), that is a surpassing humiliation.
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If the Democratic primary were a contest to crown the biggest policy wonk, the Massachusetts senator would be the presumptive nominee already.
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For readers keen to wonk out, A.E.I. scholars have looked in depth at both: here from Trump's plan and here for Clinton's.
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"I'm actually enjoying the chance to demonstrate that I have in my heart and always will be a policy wonk," she said.
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" Yuval Levin, a prominent conservative policy wonk, wrote in the National Review that the Texas lawsuit "doesn't even merit being called silly.
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Zimring's most explosive assertion — which leaps out of a work that is mostly policy-wonk nuance — is that police leaders don't care.
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Kazanciyan: Full disclosure: despite living in the D.C. area for the past 14 years, I'm definitely not a policy or legal wonk.
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"He has integrity, cares about the individual, and is a policy wonk," wrote Van Laar, who noted working for Knight's 2014 campaign.
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"I do plead guilty to being a policy wonk and I know that can be boring," Clinton said as she announced her platform.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) sold himself as a policy wonk and budget hawk throughout his 20-year career in the House.
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She is a self-described policy wonk who finds the art of campaigning difficult and admits it does not come naturally to her.
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It was like he chose a persona for each occasion — goofy but proud dad, cool guy, serious wonk — and then stepped into it.
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A lawyer by training, the Austin, Texas- based mother of two is a reproductive rights policy specialist and a self-professed policy wonk.
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"THAAD has a forward-looking radar with a 120-degree field of view," Lewis wrote in a recent report for Arms Control Wonk.
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Privately, aides chalk it all up to Clinton being more policy-wonk than political animal, not her lack of familiarity with the press.
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Of course, that's right — on a great many issues, the president isn't the policy-wonk-in-chief, he's the coalition-builder-in-chief.
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There is an eternal debate in carbon wonk circles about the relative merits of a carbon tax versus a cap-and-trade system.
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These sound like the typical but impossible suggestions of a conservative think tank wonk, not to mention a pipedream in today's political environment.
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A health care wonk and editor at Forbes, he has worked for three Republican presidential hopefuls — Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Marco Rubio.
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Television producers are relatively unlikely to air Clinton in policy wonk mode, not because it's a conspiracy but because it's bad for ratings.
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But her tendency to embrace her inner wonk predates that nickname and is not a newly conjured attempt to push back at him.
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Some online supporters have even taken to calling her "Likable Liz" in an attempt to rebuff notions she is only a policy wonk.
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This week, Trump is expected to "decertify" — wonk speak for undermine — the one deal that is peacefully and effectively containing Iran's nuclear program.
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Rejoice, Democratic lovers of Plans, for your presidential field's second-string wonk candidate Pete Buttigieg has produced details for his health care plan.
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Perhaps the major figure in all this was Ryan -- one of the brightest of the bright and the biggest policy wonk of the wonks.
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Luther Lowe, Yelp's policy wonk who seems to spend every waking hour making a case against Google's dominance, was working reporters in the room.
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They also tend to see the wonk class's obsession with deserving versus undeserving and less spending as opposed to more as fundamentally self-limiting.
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Another was a Dutch dancer named Tonto who was matched with Sam, an agency wonk, because they both loved the chain's vegetarian Veneziana pizza.
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Winfree, a respected policy wonk with strong ties to the conservative movement, is the second senior official to announce a departure in three days.
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Warren claims to be a wonk, with policy proposal after policy proposal for issue after issue, but the plans simply do not add up.
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Breaking up the banks would involve arcane and complex regulatory moves that can trip up any banking policy wonk, let alone a presidential candidate.
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"Unlike the unpredictable nature of the Trump/Clinton debate that drove big numbers, this will be a predictable wonk fest on policy," Wilkinson said.
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Both of these problems seem intractable to a finance wonk analyzing the deal, and yet GM was able to pull off the Cruise deal.
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"What impressed me beyond his business experience, which is pretty unique, is that he's just a policy wonk," Mr. Bush said in an interview.
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" And during his interview with O'Reilly, he accused the budget policy wonk of backing "very, very bad budgets" and favoring "open borders and amnesty.
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BERLIN — If you don't happen to be a foreign policy wonk, you've probably never heard of Instex, the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges.
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And this campaign, and indeed her career, has shown that she is not only a policy wonk but is also an admirer of Lincoln.
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And Carson previewed Trump, the general election candidate, one who will be able to go toe-to-toe with Hillary Clinton, the policy wonk.
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As a homeowner, Asare benefits from tax breaks that Diaz does not, the biggest being the mortgage-interest deduction — or MID, in wonk-speak.
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If that all sounds like a bunch of particle wonk, fear not—even scientists in the field regard these quantum-scale interactions as mind-bogglers.
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Trump is nobody's idea of a policy wonk, but he has signed on to a real agenda, and if he wins he'll probably implement it.
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Trump is neither an ideologist nor a policy wonk; his feelings about the world have little in the way of connective tissue or workable implications.
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But their fears are likely misplaced, says Steve Bell, a longtime budget Senate staffer and now an economic policy wonk at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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Then Republicans drew the comically-inauthentic but plausibly-competent Mitt Romney as their nominee, and Obama's reelection bid turned into a historically unusual wonk-off.
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THRUSH: Remember the other big thing is what people forget--and I don't want to wonk the hell out here--we'll probably cut this out.
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Staub likes both candidates but contrasted Sanders' history as a grassroots organizer with Warren's more recent emergence as a leading progressive with "policy wonk" plans.
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In freshman orientation, Mr. Israel said, representatives are asked what kind of member they want to be: an activist, a policy wonk, a political leader.
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Reddit finally bans its forum for creepy fake celebrity porn Why Congress's new spending deal gets the (cautious) support of a leading liberal budget wonk
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Right now the wonk brigade has been weighing in on Bernie Sanders, and is in general not too impressed on either financial reform or health care.
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Warren has carved out a space for herself as a detailed policy wonk who is more palatable to moderates than Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.
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In other words, these are not people who take their cues from the center-left wonk class that has been ripping apart their plan since Monday.
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But more fundamentally, neither alleged master tactician Mitch McConnell nor alleged policy wonk Paul Ryan are nearly as impressive as some of their press hype suggests.
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If you're not a media wonk, it can be hard to really care about things like the $80 billion deal between AT&T and Time Warner.
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The actor leaves behind the action-hero antics of the counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer to play a policy wonk thrust into a job he never wanted.
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Jessica Rosenworcel, a career telecom wonk whom President Obama appointed to the F.C.C. in 2012, has become the crucial swing vote on the cable box proposal.
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The pundit class collapsed back in its chair last week, exhausted and spent, from a furious wonk-off session over Bernie Sanders's rhetoric on medical bankruptcies.
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Translating from wonk-ese, the subsidies offered to lower-income people under ACA are scaled both to income and to the local price of health insurance.
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Kaptur — known as a policy wonk — has taken a lighter touch, shoring up support from her closest allies in the Ohio delegation and other Midwestern states.
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No president in recent times has been his own wonk; each has relied on an internal debate to come to a conclusion on highly technical matters.
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But in today's politics, where identity too often is destiny, Trump will benefit from having a liberal, Ivy League Democratic policy wonk make his constitutional arguments.
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"There have been 10-point shifts over the general election season before, even if it's uncommon," writes Nate Cohn, the New York Times's resident polling wonk.
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In wonk speak, Powell remarked that he didn't think that ETFs—exchange-traded funds—were a particular culprit, though he conceded that the issue deserves further study.
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During his presidential run, his health care bill faced a bevy of criticism from the center-left wonk class for not taking the underlying policy seriously enough.
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That, along with his time as Trump's budget director, have won Mulvaney a reputation as a policy wonk in what is often a detail-averse White House.
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A brainy wonk with a populist edge, she has pumped out ideas that are at times brilliant, at others outlandish, but seldom half-baked or easily dismissed.
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Enter Evan McMullin, the former CIA staffer and GOP policy wonk, running for the presidency on a Never Trump ticket -- backed by a cabal of Republican donors.
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Clinton, a politics junkie and policy wonk who as first lady wanted an office in the West Wing and led Bill Clinton's health care task force, Mrs.
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For Ryan, a self-described policy wonk who's chaired both the influential Ways and Means and Budget committees, that political philosophy has so far served him well.
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Other colleagues offered a reminder that the Senate is not necessarily the worst back-up plan for failed presidential candidates — particularly for a policy wonk like Warren.
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He was stunned, he said, that Mr. Rosselló, an engineer whom Mr. Fortuño had viewed as a "policy wonk," could be so callous and careless in private.
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"That mixture of policy wonk and street-level activist were what interested me in him in the first place," said Marshall Curry, the director of the documentary.
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How could House Republicans under the leadership of Paul Ryan, who the media keeps assuring us is a smart, serious policy wonk, have produced such a monstrosity?
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Mr. Ryan became the party's de facto wonk in chief and played a critical role giving the Tea Party's otherwise inchoate politics of grievance a definitive shape.
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Even if Donald Trump were the great deal maker he claims to be, or Paul Ryan the policy wonk he poses as, this thing just can't work.
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In an era of rule-by-tweet, she is an unashamed policy wonk who is now a front-runner to be the Democratic nominee for president in 20113.
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There's no question that policy is Clinton's forte -- aides to the former senator and secretary of state describe her as a wonk who knows policy inside and out.
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But that's because basically every left-leaning higher ed wonk with government experience and/or the specialized knowledge to work through a plan like that is backing Clinton.
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"The board wanted someone who is more of a wonk," said the source, who added that DeMint's part-time status in D.C. contributed to the disconnect with trustees.
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A centrist wonk who has been wrong footed in TV interviews, he has emerged recently as the proverbial outsider that fed up voters here periodically latch on to.
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Jeffrey Lewis—Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and founder of Arms Control Wonk—is less worried and more direct.
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Pioneered by CNN a decade ago, the screens have also made stars of their human minders, the anchors who blend wonk-level knowledge with tap-and-swipe dexterity.
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Any wonk on the right will talk about equalizing the tax code by capping the unlimited tax break for employer-based insurance and dramatically expanding health savings accounts.
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Why are there so few carbon prices in the world high enough to make a difference, when every wonk and economist agrees on the merits of carbon pricing?
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A wonk-ish must-read for every company or employee interested in this question is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's task force study on harassment in the workplace.
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No. Like her or not, Hillary Clinton is a genuine policy wonk, who can think on her feet and clearly knows what she is talking about on many issues.
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He explained he's on the "policy wonk end of the spectrum" and likes to surround himself with experts on all subjects to help him make the best possible decisions.
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Within weeks the existence of a "wonk gap," in which Clinton had more rigorous, more detailed policy proposals, became conventional wisdom in the press — largely because it was true.
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Trump is not a policy wonk, and the White House says he'll reaffirm his desire to work on broad goals such as tax reform and repealing and replacing ObamaCare .
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Despite McCain's rapidly fading reputation for being a maverick, he's not known as a health care wonk or a lawmaker who cares about preserving social welfare programs in general.
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No one expects Trump to become a wonk overnight, and the appeal of his candidacy to date has had little to do with his expertise on matters of policy.
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But once Ryan successfully cast himself as the party's leading conservative wonk, it seemed that nothing—neither repeated policy failures nor evidence of his grift—could dent his standing.
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He escalated as a rising GOP star and policy wonk, ultimately becoming the chairman of two major committees, the 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate and speaker of the House.
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Each community and era, conspiracy theory wonk Robert Blaskiewicz said in an interview, made adjustments to the targets of the panic, reflecting the stresses of the area and age.
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"If Alabama's the business decision and the N.F.L. pipeline, Clemson is the family," said Barton Simmons, director of recruiting for 221Sports, a digital bible for college football's wonk set.
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"Conservative intellectuals, and conservative politicians, have been in kind of a bubble," Avik Roy, a GOP health care wonk who worked for the Romney campaign, told me in July.
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Known as a no-nonsense player and policy wonk, Ms. Nielsen appears unlikely to land at the center of the type of controversies that have engulfed Mr. Trump's presidency.
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During the White House meeting, Trump, far from a policy wonk, gave some clarity on at least one policy issue: He voiced support for renewing the Export-Import Bank.
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To this day one sometimes reads articles portraying Ryan as a serious policy wonk, despite abundant evidence of his unseriousness and real questions about his actual command of policy.
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She's known as a policy wonk, but she'll probably have a slightly less heavy-duty conversation when she appears with James Corden on "The Late Late Show" on Tuesday.
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Surgeon, New Yorker writer, and top health care wonk Atul Gawande unleashed a devastating critique of the American Health Care Act as House Republicans are poised to pass it.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's policy wonk in chief, has long advocated for some of the welfare changes that party colleagues are trying to decide how to package.
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What I and most of my wonk friends would like to see is what the late Robert Heilbroner used to call Slightly Imaginary Sweden — or these days, maybe Diversified Denmark.
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Before the controversial video surfaced, Portman, a soft-spoken veteran of Washington and proud policy wonk, said Trump's unorthodox candidacy helped his re-election race by energizing the GOP base.
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He's also chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known as a policy wonk and would add another well-known Capitol Hill name to Trump's budding cabinet, along with Rep.
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Biggest revelation: Hillary Clinton was far closer to picking Elizabeth Warren as her running mate than anyone suspected -- in part because they connected so deeply on the girl-wonk level.
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"The Boards of Trustees puts out a whole book of any policy idea in any pieces of legislation or suggested by any policy wonk," said Social Security expert Alicia Munnell.
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I've been a deckhand on P&O Ferries, a dustman, a barman, an administration robot, a security guard, tea-boy at L'Oreal, a copywriter, an editor, a social media wonk.
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"Kirstjen's a policy wonk at heart, especially when it comes to cyber," Frank Cilluffo, a former senior homeland security official under Bush who worked with Nielsen at George Washington University.
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"Bipartisanship is a talking point to position the GOP to later criticize Democrats for being 'obstructionists'" when nothing productive comes out of that process, argued healthcare politics wonk Larry Jacobs.
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A critical test With his telegenic appearance, his reputation as a policy wonk and his well-documented ambition, California's Democratic Governor has long been viewed as a likely presidential contender.
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As Warren brands herself has the progressive policy wonk, ready and eager to dive deeply into each of her many, intricately crafted proposals, Sanders pivots back to his political revolution.
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A former prep-school history teacher with an M.B.A. from Oxford University, she speaks in rapid-fire sentences that pivot quickly in tone from policy wonk to street-savvy organizer.
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As a policy wonk at the American Enterprise Institute, he's been an active voice in drug policy since then, including frequent contributions to the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page.
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Some bands get bigger, like my mum knows who Slaves are now, and I think Wonk Unit are climbing that same ladder, but I don't think people are bitter about it.
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So when we fantasize about electing a celebrity as president, we're not imagining that Oprah is secretly a brilliant legislator or that the Rock has hidden depths as a policy wonk.
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Ryan has long tried to make a Republican case on fighting poverty in the House, and he has built a reputation around being a policy wonk with command of the issues.
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Paul Ryan did a powerpoint presentation to try to save the bill, but in the process suggested that he—The One True Wonk—had no idea how health insurance actually works.
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He isn't an ideologue like Ted Cruz, an opportunist like Marco Rubio, a movement builder like Bernie Sanders, a political legatee like Jeb Bush or a policy wonk like Hillary Clinton.
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This goes in particular for Mr. Ryan, who has received extraordinarily favorable press treatment over the years — portrayed as an honest, serious policy wonk with a sincere concern for fiscal probity.
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You don't need to be a democratic socialist firebrand or an advocate for the poor or even a policy wonk to see that something is deeply, deeply out of whack here.
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After multiple Republican bills spectacularly fizzled out this summer, Cassidy teamed up with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, not known as a health policy wonk, to give it one more try.
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"The KN-08 and KN-14 are far more capable than more conservative estimates," Jeffrey Lewis, a missile and nuclear weapons expert who blogs at Arms Control Wonk, wrote in April.
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Over and over again, we have seen a lifetime of success evaporate in the face of 800 words in a daily newspaper or a wonk blog from a 20000 zip code.
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Yet the most significant speech given at last weekend's Third Modern Monetary Theory conference at Stony Brook University was made not by an economist or financial wonk, but by a pastor.
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To the Editor: Re "A Bill So Bad It's Awesome" (column, March 10): Paul Krugman is right that Speaker Paul Ryan does not deserve his reputation as a serious policy wonk.
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It's an appearance that's especially satisfying for DC fans, but the dynamic between the quirky demon hunter and deadpan Oliver is enjoyable even if you're not a comic book wonk. 4.
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But if Bloomberg, the man who invented an entire computer system to decipher financial markets, is such a numbers wonk, his many skeptics wonder about the math underpinning his potential candidacy.
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Virtually every wonk and analyst agrees that it's important, but voters are voters, and they like supporting "good"s more than they like punishing "bad"s, especially when they're the bads.
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I think developing certain techniques, like crude pitchshifting, and gaining the confidence to use them more in the forefront of my music has enabled me to be more blatant with the wonk.
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He needs to explain in specific (not theoretical policy wonk terms) why being in the EU is to France's advantage and why leaving would be painful and affect people's wallets and livelihood.
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According to Jeffrey Lewis, a big nuke wonk at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, of all the kinds of nuclear sneak attacks, Russian leaders live in perpetual fear of a decapitation strike.
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As Sanders largely skated by insisting he had a way to do so, Warren, ever the wonk, felt the need to outline pay-fors, and her answer faced criticism on all sides.
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The right question isn't whether this change is better than some fantasy wonk bill, but whether it's better than other policies that actually could have passed or, more likely, the status quo.
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And doing so could take a big bite out of poverty in the United States, especially as measured by the wonk-approved supplemental poverty metric, which accounts for geographic differences in housing costs.
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It's true that he is not a passionate policy wonk; nor does he seem like someone who is deeply invested, on a personal level, in the non-immigration aspects of his policy agenda.
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As any debate aficionado will tell you, Clinton is a policy wonk who meticulously prepares for any and every matchup as she gets ready to walk onstage resplendent in her pantsuit of choice.
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"As often happens, this long-term problem that requires a huge allocation of funding to make a difference takes a back seat to more politically immediate priorities," said infrastructure policy wonk Joel Moser.
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At first glance, it struck me as the kind of market-based plan conservative policy wonk Avik Roy, who once worked for Mitt Romney, would come up with if asked to replace ObamaCare.
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A failure to pass a budget would be an embarrassment for Ryan, a former Budget chairman whose reputation as the GOP's star policy wonk was solidified with his work on annual spending blueprints.
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Thus, while Clinton gets my vote, her insistence at the final debate that her proposed fiscal program will not "add a penny" to the national debt is fouling my wonk serenity this morning.
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That means Republicans have the space to pivot to tax reform, which Cato Institute fiscal policy wonk Dan Mitchell told me is their last chance to score a big policy win in 2017.
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Staub, who is involved in local politics in Manchester, likes both candidates but contrasted Sanders' history as a grassroots organizer with Warren's more recent emergence as a leading progressive with "policy wonk" plans.
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Earlier this morning Samsung's Galaxy S9's camera was awarded the highest-yet score from DxOMark, and now its screen gets the best-of-all-time nod from DisplayMate and display wonk Ray Soneira.
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So she started to build and roll out a series of detailed policy proposals designed to put the Native American flap behind her (again) and carve out space as the race's resident policy wonk.
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Two years later, when he was selected as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, he was hailed as a policy wonk inside the party and in media — making him the logical heir to conservatism.
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Killing the mandate also psyches up some on the right who could have opposed the bill for other reasons, Joe Antos, a health policy wonk at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me.
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Several wonk shops are being set up to examine the ethics of algorithmic technology, including one at Oxford backed by a £150m donation from Stephen Schwarzman, the boss of Blackstone, a private-equity firm.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, a policy wonk who once chaired the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, was the most senior lawmaker to address Trump's troubles Monday in comments that were relatively tepid.
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Casting himself as the heir to Jack Kemp's brand of compassionate conservatism, but also a new kind of right-wing policy wonk, he hoodwinked Beltway journalists for years and nearly got away with it.
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The full video seems to make him sound much more like an International Monetary Fund or World Bank wonk: in other words, out of touch, philosophical, and a bit like a latter-day colonialist.
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Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru who has been more of a half-ironic meme than a serious candidate, is a unique figure who talks like a West Coast spiritualist rather than a wonk.
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But the policy wonk and Republican thought leader departs without meaningful action on the agenda that led to his rise as a national Republican figure -- reforming entitlement programs and tackling the nation's debt crisis.
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Not so with the filibuster, which isn't just a fun word to say; it's also a theatrically appealing concept, some combination of grandstanding and policymaking that is interesting even if you're not a wonk.
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We had our client's Wonk NYC dresser color-matched to Hague Blue, so that the piece could augment the client's storage without competing for attention with the room's more deliberate and sculptural design elements.
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Checkmate. The episode was a good reminder of the dangers of Wonk Brain, which leads sufferers to fight viciously over questionable methodology and imprecise rhetoric while ignoring the bleeding obvious and the obvious bleeding.
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While he is no policy wonk — "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated," he famously said at one point — he has shown more comfort with the details of his tax-cutting legislation.
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Compared to Buttigieg or Biden's plans, which are (perhaps intentionally) lacking in detail, Medicare for America does the best job at contending with this challenge—they really did their wonk-work on this one.
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I considered the way a woman can prepare her whole life for a job, can work and study and push through pneumonia and still be dismissed as a boring wonk with an annoying voice.
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It's not that vague, personality-driven campaigns don't succeed—Barack Obama became famous for his Beto-esque speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and ran as an inspirational figure rather than a policy wonk.
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An epic Twitter thread from policy wonk Sam Bell has dug up Moore calling for rate hikes in August 2008, not to mention the abolition of the Fed and the reinstatement of the gold standard.
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Either they could take the easy breezy hair-fluffing Jimmy Fallon road and be ridiculed by rose emoji on Twitter, or they could go the Jimmy Kimmel route and wonk it out on national television.
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The 250-year-old Newsom is considered a policy wonk by those who know him, as well as someone with a record of taking bold risks, or trying new approaches when he believes it's right.
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Even as a teenager in the Houston suburbs, he was a policy wonk drawn to other extracurricular activities like membership in the "Constitutional Corroborators," the group that memorized a shortened mnemonic version of the Constitution.
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The political landscape that lies before us next year will require a president who has the capacity to be a cutthroat negotiator, a quiet friend, a forgiving enemy, a turncoat, and a detail-obsessed wonk.
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One of Cruz's first votes after he was sworn in as a senator in January 2013 was against one of Ryan's budgets that had helped put the self-described policy wonk on the national map.
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It is less a socialist wonk agenda aimed at overthrowing capitalism than it is an antagonistic theory of how politics works, founded on the socialist vision that class struggle is the fundamental engine of politics.
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Warren's credibility as the campaign's consummate policy wonk took a hit when she failed to come up with a convincing plan to cover the staggering cost of moving 228 million Americans to the Medicare rolls.
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He clearly believes that he can address the ills that face the nation, while Clinton appeared to be a policy wonk detached from the impact of the policies she has supported, hoping no one would notice.
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Wheeler, however, proved critics wrong by showing himself to be a thoughtful policy wonk who pushed hard for the strong net neutrality rules advocated by Obama, consumer advocates, and most anyone not affiliated with internet providers.
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The note has no doubt hit Trump where it hurt, turning his dual loves of Twitter and fast food against him in a way that no mainstream media wonk has been able to do thus far.
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How it expected to win with an overly cautious, graying policy wonk with a tendency toward building bunkers when media scrutiny gets intense will be a question answered by countless studies, columns and unauthorized tell-alls.
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Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, has a reputation as a policy wonk, committed to fiscal responsibility, that is utterly incomprehensible if you look at the slapdash, fundamentally dishonest policy documents he actually puts out.
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Bloomberg built his public reputation as a data-driven wonk who shows little emotion, making it all the more striking that he choked up near the end of his remarks, his voice thick with restrained tears.
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Warren was dismissed early on by some as a "school marm" in love with lecturing, which emphasized her bona fides as a Harvard professor and a policy wonk more than her economically difficult upbringing in Oklahoma.
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About Ryan: Incredibly, I'm seeing some news reports about his exit that portray him as a serious policy wonk and fiscal hawk who, sadly, found himself unable to fulfill his mission in the Trump era. Unbelievable.
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As talk of US-China "decoupling" remains in vogue—at least in certain Washington wonk circles—it's worth realizing that numerous world leaders are exploring ways to limit security risks posed by investments in technology companies.
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Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, is a serious policy wonk who has made a career out of building an image as a Ronald Reagan-Jack Kemp hybrid — ideologically stringent but with a sunny disposition.
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They don't always agree -- Cohn, the director of Trump's National Economic Council, isn't sold on what Ryan, a legendary wonk, has proposed as a central element of tax reform, according to several sources familiar with the conversations.
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Researcher, policy wonk, and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande had heard them all: Medicaid doesn't work, driving down coverage rates will result in more deaths, insurance coverage doesn't actually improve health or mortality, and on and on.
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"The bigger question is whether at some point we will revisit the entire financing structure of the ACA (which would require another broader discussion around repeal and replace)," said Lanhee Chen, a conservative health wonk at Stanford.
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This achievement was years in the making for House Speaker Paul Ryan, solidifying his place in history as a policy wonk with the political skills to see through something as complicated as changing the US tax code.
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While those projects go on, and while Washington policy wonks wonk out, winnable political battles are being outright surrendered — such as what happened in North Carolina, where voters, by and large, supported the actual provisions in HB2.
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Cesar Conda, a former Hill aide and ally of Ryan's, said that he's watched him evolve over the years from staffer to speaker, gaining momentum and skills that the policy wonk didn't possess in the earlier days.
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Center-right policy wonk Julio Guzmán had recently emerged as the only contender capable of challenging runaway frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, who is campaigning on the controversial hard-right legacy of her father, jailed 1990s president Alberto Fujimori.
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"Since Trump won the election, infrastructure spending has decreased as state and local governments cancel and/or slow projects as they await the big federal program," said CEO of Aquamarine Investment Partners and infrastructure wonk Joel Moser.
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Mr. Azar, who describes himself as a policy wonk, joined the administration of President George W. Bush as general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services in 2001 and became deputy secretary four years later.
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Recently, the American Action Forum — run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was once head of the CBO under G.W. Bush and a reasonably respected conservative wonk — produced a "study" of what the Green New Deal resolution would cost.
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Patrick Minford of Cardiff University, who has since made a name for himself as the hardline Brexiteers' favourite wonk, foresaw a huge jump in unemployment, as firms decided they could no longer afford to employ as many workers.
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In the Democratic primary delegate caucus I presented myself to my fellow Berniecrats as a "Policy Wonk", and was elected from a field of over seventy candidates to be one of the eight district delegates to represent Sen.
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On the wonk side: Others working on CO2 tax policy design include Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, which launched a policy research initiative this year, and the Brookings Institution, which has long worked on the topic.
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If you're a wonk, two books worth nerding out on are "Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought," by Andrew W. Lo, and "Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future," by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson.
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There is maybe no more glaring case study of this than the 2016 matchup between Hillary Clinton, with her reputation as an overachieving wonk incapable of connecting with voters, and Donald Trump, with his know-nothing, visceral demagogy.
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That Mr. Ryan failed on the policy promise that Republicans have been running on for eight years makes it clear that if he is the policy wonk of the Republican Party, then the Republican Party has no policy.
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And while Gingrich is much more of a policy wonk than Trump, he has a fondness for odd ideas, like literal moon colonies, that likely wouldn't do much to discourage the idea the Republican presidential campaign is a sideshow.
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"When Bernie was talking Medicare for All, everybody was like 'Oh cool' and then they turned to me and they said 'Fix it, Mom," said actor Kate McKinnon, who plays Warren as a lusty policy wonk on the show.
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Jane Horvath, a lawyer who previously served as global privacy counsel at Google, is the group's legal and policy wonk, often channeling the views of Apple's board and citing regulatory requirements, said former employees who have worked with her.
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By supporting the Trump candidacy, Mr. Ryan has revealed himself to be a weak opportunist, far from the ideas man and budget wonk he made himself out to be when he secured the vice-presidential nomination four years ago.
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Never mind that Ryan's Democratic critics have castigated him for repudiating a reputation as a policy wonk and years of warnings about the perils of bloating deficits and swelling government debt, by embracing a bill that does exactly that.
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I don't know where she's going to find them, since her tendency has been to go to older, whiter, more established people, because she's a wonk and she's going to want to go with people that speak her language.
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But still, "this rule could have a lot of impact in specific cases, such as with single-source drugs in rare diseases where there is a massive disparity between Canadian and U.S. prices," conservative health wonk Avik Roy tweeted.
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He reminisces about his joy in spending time with her while he ran the party in California, in his book calling her a policy wonk with a "wicked sense of humor," and said he's always looked upon her favorably.
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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a policy wonk and former House Ways and Means Committee chairman, joined fellow GOP leaders at a news conference Thursday to make the case that the legislation gives a windfall to the middle class.
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Haley selected Jon Lerner as her deputy ambassador — not an experienced foreign policy wonk to help her learn the ropes, but her longtime pollster and a strategist who played a key role in coordinating the NeverTrump campaign in 2016.
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The international news media are fond of promoting her as a new kind of unconventional 21st-century leader — the unmarried mother and policy wonk who wore a traditional Maori cloak, while pregnant, to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen.
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Earlier this year, the bodybuilder turned trainer, health wonk, and self-proclaimed biohacker Ben Greenfield made headlines when he announced that he'd had stem cells—extracted from his body fat—injected directly into his penis to make it bigger.
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It was an epic failure for a young administration still feeling its way around through the byzantine bureaucratic maze that is Washington and a stunning defeat for a speaker who made his name as the wonk-prince of the GOP.
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Anyone who ignores that basic political economy, who believes oil and gas companies will be good-faith partners in a climate-emergency effort, is indulging in a kind of willful naivete that is entirely too common in the carbon wonk community.
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Paul Ryan has crafted a flattering, and politically valuable, reputation in the press as a wonk's wonk, the rare member of Congress who knows how budget and tax policy works and how to use that knowledge to argue for conservative proposals.
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However, it seems that the campaign is finally catching on, according to Politico: But even as Clinton's hipness comes under question, her aides say she'll embrace her age—68, which is actually two years younger than Trump—and inner policy wonk.
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Even generally law-abiding Singapore is implicated in North Korea's shady industries, as revealed in a May 15 post by Andrea Berger, senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, on popular publication Arms Control Wonk.
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"This is a little bit like saying, 'I'd like a moon base, please," said Jeffrey Lewis, the publisher of the blog "Arms Control Wonk" and the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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One Labour policy wonk impishly suggests the incoming government could follow the example of the Bolsheviks in 1917 and immediately publish highly sensitive documents relating to previous governments—perhaps those related to the Iraq war or the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Rather than endless attack ads against Trump or half-hearted attempts to make her seem like a charismatic leader, she could have embraced her inner wonk and presented herself as a ridiculously competent person who is obsessed with the details.
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To amplify the message, the self-described policy wonk plans to hold an anti-poverty event at a nearby site, attend a roundtable discussion on healthcare and give remarks at a national security event, among other appearances, aides told The Hill.
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The Washington Post's Wonk Blog teamed up with Yelp to study the lexicon of Chinese restaurant names in America, and it turns out that among the 40,000 Chinese restaurants in Yelp's US database, there are, perhaps unsurprisingly, quite a few repeats.
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Ms. Abrams is a Yale-educated lawyer, and she is a self-professed wonk, and her great strength when she's speaking in front of a crowd is her command of facts, which she delivers in this blazing, rapid-fire manner.
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Sanders is free of a wonk reputation or a need to worry about his left flank, so he doesn't try to offer a specific health care financing vision — which, if he did it, would inevitably end up featuring some unpleasant tradeoffs.
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Warren has much more of a reputation as the uber-wonk with plans for everything, while Sanders is seen more as a moralist and a populist who cares less about the technical merits of proposals than whether they illustrate underlying points.
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Long before becoming the eponymous "guy" in every "From the guy who brought you..." movie trailer, Judd Apatow was just another comedy wonk trying to make it in the cutthroat world of stand-up in the late 80s and early 90s.
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"I don't think it'd be overstating it: He was a bit of a geek and a wonk," Tom Ingram, a former newspaper reporter who has known Alexander since the 22018s and eventually became his Senate chief of staff, told me.
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Meanwhile, the supposedly serious conservatives at the American Action Forum — run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was once head of the CBO under G.W. Bush and a reasonably respected conservative wonk — were producing a "study" of what the GND resolution would cost.
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Since his primary win, Rose has been asked that question a lot, as he's contorted himself into a political force: a gregarious but relatable policy wonk, a veteran for the forgotten man in the straight-talking, swashbuckling, swamp-draining mold of Donald Trump.
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In addition to being an international trade policy wonk, Mr. Punke is the author of "The Revenant," a 219 novel about a 22010th-century American fur trapper's epic struggle for survival in the wilderness, and the inspiration for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film.
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The real takeaway of the story is to introduce you to a Hillary we all know—the smarty-pantsuit valedictorian and policy wonk who does the tedious homework, masters the footnotes, and gets an A+ for effort on the day's big legislative assignment.
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It was nifty because it answered a different question from the one asked: namely, Mrs Clinton pretended that she had been asked why she is not better liked, and explained that perhaps she is a doughty slogger and policy wonk who lacks charisma.
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Ryan, a budget wonk who was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2012, is seen by many in the party as a unifier after he took the speaker's job last year to unite establishment Republican lawmakers and conservative upstarts in the House.
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But there is also the Mr. Trump who seems to float in a bubble of self-regard, the intemperate and blustering bully, the counter-wonk who seems unversed in the most basic policy debates, the rabble-rouser who was slow to disown racists.
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Ryan, who prides himself on being a policy wonk, who has also been his party's vice presidential nominee in 2012 and found a way to be begged into the job of speaker when John Boehner retired, is an even more accomplished politician.
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Hype springs eternal — certainly when it comes to Paul Ryan, whose media image as a Serious, Honest Conservative and policy wonk seems utterly impervious to repeated demonstrations that he is neither serious nor honest, and that he actually knows very little about policy.
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Specifically, her use of a Ralph Lauren navy wool double-faced pantsuit with a cream shawl collar and cream wool top to better frame the jovial-serenity-atop-policy-wonk approach with which she has chosen to contrast herself with Mr. Trump.
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But even though Kaine's a policy wonk in many ways, he speaks like a normal human being, one you'd probably enjoy sharing a beer with (something I had the chance to do at the Governor's Mansion in Richmond after Kaine was elected).
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To paraphrase McArdle, it turns out Warren is not a health care wonk, "she just plays one on TV." Playing expert on TV would be fine if Warren had been skating her way through some gotcha question about the Export-Import Bank.
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"If you cut the employees' payroll tax, then you impose that tax on employers, and you do that in equal and opposite proportions, it has zero economic impact," Doug Holtz-Eakin, a prominent conservative wonk who leads the American Action Forum, told me.
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But she is also more of a policy wonk than Sanders, and her campaign has a bigger policy apparatus, so her financial regulation plan is considerably more comprehensive than Sanders's and addresses issues — like shadow banking — that are outside the scope of Sanders's proposals.
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Clinton has sought to use this issue against Sanders, positioning herself as the true champion of middle-class interests, while Sanders has earned wonk points by embracing what is generally considered to be sound policy design by financing broad social insurance with a broad tax.
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Clinton has achieved such overwhelming party insider support that the Sanders campaign is largely cut off from access to the kind of para-party policy wonk universe that would allow Sanders to release campaign proposals that pass muster by the traditional rules of the game.
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The annual ritual is part love fest, with a parade of politicians reaffirming their pro-Israel bona fides, and wonk fest, with speakers getting deep into the weeds on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and U.S. military and financial support for its closest Mideast ally.
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Such figures are dragged down by newer universities that lack rich graduates, money to spend on fundraising and the lustre of prestigious rivals (it is less glamorous to have a building named after you at a former polytechnic than at Oxford, notes one wonk).
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But Ryan's wonk act has fallen flat under Trump, whose most consequential political quality is an endless ability to dispense with political subtext and get right to the point, which in the GOP's case means appealing to white voters who are mad as hell.
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Odette Delacroix, a hardcore performer, producer, and industry wonk who analyzes her own content to pick up on trends: Back then, everyone was using condoms in scenes because there wasn't a way to get a STI test back in 20003 hours like there is now.
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The 41-year-old former senator and one-time Washington policy wonk managed a meteoric rise after forming a tight-knit relationship with Álvaro Uribe, the popular former president (2002-2010) who looks poised to maintain his status as political kingmaker from his Senate perch.
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Although the United States has been flagging the missile's development as a violation since 79, the Russian design bureau that builds guidance for cruise missiles made a statement in 2015 that the 9M729 had completed state trials, according to the respected blog Arms Control Wonk.
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Candidates who had prepared stacks of detailed policy documents or who had real experience in government tried to take on Trump over substance during the primary debates, often seeming to score points against a person who has admitted repeatedly that he's not a policy wonk.
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Organizations that are supporting Ms. Warren have blasted out emails with subject lines like "Warren the Warrior Wonk Returns — and people LOVE it," sent after Ms. Warren criticized one of her favorite targets, Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and a presidential rival.
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They recognize that everyone needs health care, which is why they subsidize care for less well-off people, but go to immense lengths to avoid paying for the care of people who are deemed to be able to afford it by the Wonk Formula.
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The proud policy wonk of a president couldn't help but add a policy critique, praising emerging Democratic proposals like Medicare-for-all or giving workers seat on corporate boards — a rhetorical embrace of a much more leftist politics than Obama himself ever pursued in office.
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More likely, given the state of the G.O.P. under Trump, who is no one's idea of a wonk, is that Republicans will simply decline to pursue the issue with any force, and the shabbiness of the party's current non-position will become even more glaring.
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" Flynn, in a book with Michael Ledeen, a foreign policy wonk at the right-wing Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, wrote: "We're in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam.
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With a wink of self-deprecation for being a policy wonk, Gore said he had gone through Clinton's climate policies "with a fine-toothed comb" and was impressed by the commitment to install half a billion solar panels by the end of her first term.
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She relates to the people she meets on a personal level rather than always going all policy-wonk on them, like when she asked for a woman's mother's name during a campaign stop in Iowa after hearing that the mother had fled domestic abuse in Mexico.
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Her biggest vice, from my point of view, is listening too much to consultants who want to make cheap shots, like the claim that the Sanders plan would kill Medicaid, when her real strength comes when she lets her inner wonk and fundamental toughness shine through.
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Get technical Candidates who had prepared stacks of detailed policy documents or who had real experience in government tried to take on Trump over substance during the primary debates, often seeming to score points against a person who has admitted repeatedly that he's not a policy wonk.
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The noted policy wonk has been optimistic for months that tax reform can be accomplished this year, and after the Senate failed to pass health care legislation last month, he was one of the first leaders to say it was time to move on to tax reform.
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More from STAT News: Andy Slavitt can't stop: How a health care wonk became a rabble-rouserHow a drug ad made its way into 'General Hospital'As hopes for polio eradication rise, the endgame gets complicated, and a vaccine runs short He was not always so linguistically challenged.
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The study, which is a dystopian page turner even if you are not a policy wonk, reported that older Americans face inadequate income and unmanageable health care costs, resulting from a shrinking safety net and the shift of risk from government and employers to individuals themselves.
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After years of policy wonk arguments about the labor market impact of immigration, Donald Trump has centered his immigration politics on a rhetoric of physical threat that hooks in well with the idea that the inflow of people from Latin America is per se a problem.
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Instead of admonishing parents who make the decision to look beyond their local public school for their kids&apos education, Warren — the noted progressive policy wonk — could have plainly elucidated her vision to improve public education so that more schools become these parents&apos first choice.
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" Ellison is not a policy wonk; he talks about such imperatives as "raising the minimum wage, putting money into the schools, staving off environmental disaster" in long, rolling clusters, and often ends by declaiming the point of the whole thing: "Just improving the quality of people's lives!
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The game felt as if it had been scripted to hit all the nerve endings of what makes us care about college sports, and if the quality of the actual play was not up to par, no one but the most hardened sports wonk would have noticed.
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Following her remarks to a majority-black female audience, the Warren campaign sharpened its messaging to include issues unique to black Americans like maternal mortality rates and racial justice, an approach that some activists say helped alter the perception that Warren was a detached policy wonk.
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In the fall of 2007, when Barack Obama was struggling to gain ground against Hillary Clinton, his advisers told him he would never win a white paper war against a policy wonk like Clinton, and he needed to turn the race to a contest about character.
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But there is a risk, said Korea watcher Bruce Klingner, that if Moon seems too much like he's advocating for North Korea he might provoke hostility and mistrust in DC. "He wants to continue improving relations between North and South Korea," said Korea wonk Lisa Collins.
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A possible political career for Sandberg has been mentioned a lot before, too — especially since she has been a Washington wonk before (she worked as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the last Clinton administration before moving to Silicon Valley to work at Google).
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I serve as Chief Policy Wonk (yes, we get to pick our own titles) of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture — not a government agency, but a people-powered action network of artists and allies inciting creativity and social imagination to shape a culture of empathy, equity, and belonging.
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And Trump is not alone in being conned: House Speaker Paul Ryan has been fooling a lot of people for a long time, making the world believe that he's the foremost Republican policy wonk, an expert in the fine print of budgets who could bring a much-needed seriousness to Washington.
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The statement could be a credo for the Beltway's wonk class—the congressional staffers, anonymous bureaucrats, and think-tank fellows whose careers rest on the belief that all the histrionics of campaigning and the hyperventilating of cable news are just a freak show that distracts from the real work of governing.
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If Biden were a hard-core policy wonk, he would've said that the evaluations of this program are pretty good, but their helpfulness is limited by compliance, and so he wants to put more resources into it to try to improve on both the depth and breadth of their reach.
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The polarizing path Nielsen has taken is somewhat surprising for a government bureaucrat and policy wonk known more for her loyalty to White House chief of staff John Kelly and her expertise in cybersecurity than for the hard-line immigration views espoused by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House adviser Stephen Miller.
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Given that our country has consistently climbed down the educational attainment ladder, and that inane and banal reality TV shows draw more eyeballs than books and opera, it should not surprise us that a growing swath of the electorate is more enthused by a coarse, bullying celebrity than by an awkward policy wonk.
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" Chris Jennings, a Democratic policy wonk: "The political question is this: Is the relatively harmlessness of the policy in real terms worth the time to develop, implement and confuse people (and in some cases get them mad) worth the political benefit of having more broad-based political investment in the Affordable Care Act?
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A new paper by the right-of-center wonk Charles Blahous at the libertarian Mercatus Center offers an answer at least to the first question, giving the idea a $32.6 trillion price tag over the decade 2022–2031 if a Medicare for all bill was passed this year (which obviously won't happen).
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Warren, for example, established herself as an effective and detailed policy wonk who has a plan for everything, but she peaked early in the polls and was bogged down at times by the rollout of her health care proposal and her use of a DNA test to try to prove Native American ancestry.
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When policy wonks forget that (wonk is itself policy jargon -- "know" spelled backward), we need only look at a map of America to remember that every town is full of people whose stories are written in part by the words we work so hard to put to paper: in reports, white papers, regulations and legislation.
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As a political wonk, I was drawn to watch the movie "Weiner" because I figured there was no way he'd let anyone follow him around 24/7 with a camera crew unless we'd get a different glimpse of the man whose Twitpik and unfortunate last name created the joke heard 'round the world in 2011.
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At 69, the soft-spoken former mayor from Springfield, Massachusetts, who has built a reputation as a business-friendly Democrat, wonk and behind-the-scenes negotiator will be cast into one of the most visible and partisan roles on Capitol Hill: the man who will ask for President Donald Trump's long-awaited tax returns.
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They can be found, however, at a little digital publication he launched called Biden Forum: A Conversation About the Future of the Middle Class that's housed at the Biden Foundation and run by Ben Harris, a Northwestern University professor and veteran DC policy wonk who served as Biden's top economic advisor during Obama's second term.
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For all the talk about how Medicare for All is a "pie in the sky" idea, what's left unsaid is that as soon as the wonk trigonometry that undergirds these plans makes contact with the mischiefs of ideology (and the depredations of industry lobbyists), these public option pastries are also launched into the cloud layer.
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And a wacky approach prevails on the beer bill, at least where the names are concerned: Funkmaster Brett (a Belgian I.P.A.), Poke the Bear (an American Pale Ale) and Peculiar Paradise (a golden saison) seem to hint at creative risks taken with yeasts and malts, though the extensive liner notes on each offering are beer-wonk reassuring.
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It was clear that while Harris grew stronger as her time went on, Buttigieg was in his element from the outset, with the town hall format playing to his strengths as a counterpuncher and policy-immersed wonk -- one with a former McKinsey consultant's instinct for reframing negatives as positives, and an ear for the applause line.
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This is just like Touch ID. Federighi also noted on our call that Apple would be releasing a security white paper on Face ID closer to the release of the iPhone X. So if you're a researcher or security wonk looking for more, he says it will have "extreme levels of detail" about the security of the system.
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House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), a notorious policy wonk and former House Budget Committee chairman, even floated the possibility of not adopting a budget if a majority of Republican couldn't agree to one.
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That's why John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, a genial Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter (who came across as tight and testy), the relaxed and amiable Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush, his son George W. Bush beat the policy-wonk-sounding Al Gore, and why in this year's first presidential debate Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump.
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And Paul Ryan, the current but departing speaker, is a flimflam man: a fake deficit hawk whose one legislative achievement is a budget-busting tax cut, a fake policy wonk whose budget proposals were always obvious smoke and mirrors, pretending to address the budget deficit but actually just redistributing income from the poor to the rich.
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But more importantly, the use of benign words like "ideas" and "policy" and "wonk" mask the fact that Ryan is the party's ideological gatekeeper, and that his position is under direct threat from a candidate who has shown that significant portions of the Republican Party do not want to roll back the welfare state, cut taxes for the wealthy, and facilitate mass immigration.
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IF HILLARY CLINTON were a high-flying policy wonk seeking a post in the National Security Council, her hopes would surely be dashed by the FBI's judgment, delivered on July 5th by the bureau's director, James Comey, that she had been "extremely careless" in her handling of very sensitive, highly classified information during a previous job at the State Department.
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Instead, two old men are handily leading the field: a former vice president, as yet an undeclared candidate, who is precisely the opposite of a wonk and is facing increasing scrutiny for his "creepy uncle" behavior; and an also-ran whose platform appears unchanged since 2016, with the exception of a more rigorous policy on sexual harassment by campaign staff.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), a policy wonk and former House Ways and Means Committee chairman, joined fellow GOP leaders at a news conference Thursday to make the case that the legislation gives a windfall to the middle class.
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She has an MBA in economic development from New York University, and even though she's never run for office before, her prior career in global development (she's held positions at the United Nations as well as NYU's Africa Programs; and has been consulting for various clients from home since her daughter was born) has equipped her with the skills of both a wonk and a diplomat.
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That pursuit has animated Ryan for his entire political life, from the time he was "drinking at a keg," to his first election in 1998, and for the last 18 years, as he drew up slash-and-burn budget plans -- aka "The Roadmap" -- and successfully sold himself as Washington's wonk-in-chief, a serious person with serious ideas in a chamber and town increasingly resistant to both.
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I am not advocating that every president needs to be a policy wonk like President Obama and President Clinton were (and how the second President Clinton would have been), but there is no denying how their policy chops and their interest in truly understanding the underpinnings of the proposals they lent their names to, helped guide their vision to lead the country and give the American people a better life.
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And it's a biographical vapor trail of a talent who has been used as a romantic model of what a Great Artist should be — large-gestured, face-to-the-sunrise — but who largely departed from that ideal, who identified himself above all as a science-wonk, who spent as much time writing as making art, and who ignored (and missed) commission deadlines almost till the day he died.
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Director Greg Barker's feature-length film is nevertheless an illuminating if somewhat soft-focused look at the brinkmanship and delicacy associated with international relations, one that clearly contrasts the diplomatic efforts of these wonk-ish Obama insiders -- principally former Secretary of State John Kerry, U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and deputy adviser Ben Rhodes -- with the Trump administration's proverbial bull-in-the-china-shop approach.
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On the trail, Warren presents less as a wonk than as the young daughter who saw her parents fall from Oklahoma's middle class, as the onetime single mother who struggled to make ends meet, or the lawyer who spent her career trying to study the problems behind a government that, as she sees it, has been poisoned by corruption and no longer caters to families like the one she grew up in.
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Democrats should remember that even their more wonk-oriented party suffered from some serious failures of policy substance — most notably an underpowered stimulus bill, a health care law that wasn't structured to support short-term economic recovery, a group of excessively timid and unimaginative Federal Reserve appointees, and an inability to grapple with the foreclosure crisis in a timely manner — that played a larger role in generating electoral defeats than any shortcomings of sloganeering.
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After tenures with the Toronto Raptors and the Phoenix Suns, Mr. Colangelo was put in charge of the 76ers in 2016 following the resignation of Sam Hinkie, a statistics wonk who had navigated the team through one of the boldest experiments in pro sports history: the so-called "Process," which entailed purposely losing a lot of games over several seasons to collect as many top draft picks as possible and build for the future.
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The blustery billionaire painted Jeb as a "low energy" candidate with a wilting exclamation point who was desperately in need of an infusion of testosterone; a soft child of privilege who had to depend on Daddy's friends for money and Mommy's presence on the trail to bail him out, even as he feared using his surname on his campaign posters; an entitled wonk who pathetically tried to get more popular by taking off his rimless glasses.
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Roem, a policy wonk from her political reporting career, has oriented her campaign around unclogging Route 28, which runs from the suburban 13th District into Washington, DC. "While she has talked about her gender identity, she is also trying to focus on certain bread-and butter issues, like traffic congestion, which is a big deal in Northern Virginia in particular," Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told BuzzFeed News.
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One thing I have tried to do at the places I've been, I ran Wonk Blog at the Post, which was a policy focused vertical, and then Vox is something that I, along with Matt Iglesias and Melissa Bell, launched, and everywhere that I have run political coverage, I have made it part of the culture that we take policy seriously, Democratic, Republican, if somebody's introducing a big new policy, if Trump is, if anybody is, we see that as headline news.
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Saturday night's debate particularly reaffirmed my allegiance to Trump's candidacy because he spoke to all generations about the concerns we face and thoughts we have: China's disrespect; Islamic terrorism; illegal aliens crossing our border; the prudence in eminent domain when absolutely necessary; proper support for cops and veterans; a hard line in foreign affairs and military diplomacy to ensure a global stability; the notion that 50 years in business and a recognized skill in negotiation is superior to a gifted debater, lifelong politician or policy wonk.
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"We appreciate the work Monica Biddix has done on the campaign and we wish her the best in all of her future endeavors, but we are excited about the focus and expertise Brent will bring to the campaign, particularly with our new Heartland StartUp Tour and showing Iowans that John's not just a smart, truth-telling policy wonk; he's also a former Entrepreneur-of-the-Year and is the only Democrat in the field who has both real-world experience in business and in Congress," said campaign manager Xan Fishman.
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Instead, she uses a tight 15-minute stump speech, followed by a brief Q&A with the crowd, with questions randomly selected via a Costco-sized roll of raffle-style tickets, to return again and again to what she refers to as "the fight of my lifetime," narrated with a warmth that is part personal ("I actually want to start this with a little bit of a story," she began in Council Bluffs), part college seminar ("Let's really wonk out for a minute here," she said in Des Moines, launching into a detailed aside about housing inequality and red-lining African American neighborhoods).
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