- Suzy Khimm
- Reporter
Suzy Khimm covers the budget, economic policy, and financial regulatory reform. Before coming to Washington, she was based in Brazil and Southeast Asia, where she wrote for the Economist, Wall Street Journal Asia, Slate, and the Christian Science Monitor. Follow her on Twitter here, and email her here.
The one part of Obama’s stimulus that Romney loves
Mitt Romney's attack of Obama's stimulus is a central pillar of his campaign: In ads, statements, and speeches, he's attacked the law as a giveaway to the president's "friends, donors, campaign supporters, special interest groups." But buried inside Romney's economic plan is a promise to invest federal money in a new energy R
The great red crab migration
Every year, more than 150 million red crabs move across Christmas Island for mating season. Mayhem and hilarity ensue.
Want to get people to vote? Write a compelling work of fiction
"Losing yourself" in a good book can actually change your behavior in real life, according to researchers at Ohio State University. The effect takes hold when people find themselves completely absorbed in a fictional character—"feeling the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters as if they were their own"—and subsequently mirror that character's behavior afterwards, the study finds.
It’s not clear what Romney would actually cut to make his budget add up
Mitt Romney has promised vast reductions in federal spending while also balancing the budget, which would mean a whopping $9.6 trillion cut in non-defense cuts by 2022. He's largely avoided specifying what he'd actually cut to achieve such fiscal feats. And the cuts he has specified don't come close to getting him there.
- Paul Ryan’s evolution on immigration: From pro-legalization to anti-amnesty
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- Ryan wants to give the wealthy even bigger tax cuts than Romney does
- Reconciliation
- Romney vows to repeal Dodd-Frank. The law’s biggest critics doubt that will happen.
- How the House’s former referee would fix Congress
- How lobbyists became Congress’s leading policy wonks
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