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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have been celebrated as a team that might not be the most charismatic, but who are details-oriented number-crunchers who care deeply about policy—i.e., wonks. The w-word is a ...

I recently attended a policy conference full of some delightfully detail-oriented nerds who invest their time in such issues as the way to speed the regulatory process for future generations of ...