Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, and vice presidential candidate Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., wave at the crowd during a campaign event, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Want to know more about the 42-year-old Republican candidate for vice president? Here’s a collection of Paul Ryan profiles, opinion pieces and data sets that we’ve collected here at Moyers & Company HQ.
- “Paul Ryan’s budget plan is built on a series of rosy assumptions” by Michael Kranish, Bobby Caina Calvan and Callum Borchers in The Boston Globe
- “Ryan Has Kept Close Ties to Donors on the Right” by Nicholas Confessore in The New York Times
- “Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan” by David A. Stockman in The New York Times
- “Things you probably didn’t know about Paul Ryan” by Brad Knickerbocker in The Christian Science Monitor
- “Fussbudget: How Paul Ryan captured the G.O.P.” by Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker
- “Paul Ryan’s non-budget policy record, in one post” by Dylan Matthews in The Washington Post’s Wonkblog
- “Ryan campaign contributions” in Open Secrets (Career profile, since 1989)
- “A Young Republican with a Sweeping Agenda” by Monica Davey in The New York Times
- “The Legendary Paul Ryan” by Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine
- “Paul Ryan: A Good Choice, but Please, Not a ‘Serious’ One” by Jim Fallows in The Atlantic
- “Man with a Plan: How Paul Ryan became the intellectual leader of the Republican party ” by Stephen Hayes in The Weekly Standard
And here’s a roundup of recent BillMoyers.com posts about Rep. Paul Ryan and his 2012 budget proposal, “The Path to Prosperity.”
