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Rachel Weiner covers national politics for Post Politics and The Fix. She came to the Washington Post in 2010 as a political web editor and anchored the Post's 2012 election blog. She was previously a web editor at The Huffington Post.
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Ryan is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2016, and writing a book is a common way for contenders to lay out their ideas.
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