The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza won the Aldo Beckman Award, which recognizes excellence in the coverage of the presidency.

NPR: Obama Jokes About Radical 2nd Term Changes

In the August 6, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Mr. Lizza wrote a comprehensive profile of up and coming Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.

FORBES: Paul Ryan: Criticize and Propose

In a December 15, 2008, memo to the President that my colleague Ryan Lizza unearthed, Summers initially presented two stimulus packages one totalling six hundred and sixty-five billion dollars and the other eight hundred and eighty billion dollars.

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