Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
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By now millions of South Asians around the world have argued over how to pronounce her name, how she chopped the onion when making dosa with Mindy Kaling, how she draped her shimmering red sari in that photograph with her Tamil grandparents. We have measured her desi-ness with the sort of fervor usually reserved for arguing over our favorite mango varietals.
It is no secret that Indian Americans wish to see ourselves reflected in Kamala Devi Harris. Long after we queued up patiently outside American embassies around the world and disembarked from planes with suitcases meticulously and excessively labeled, we have arrived. Along with pajamas, the number zero and turmeric, we now claim Kamala as our own.