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.
His protégé, Mondale, made history when he mounted his own presidential run in 1984 and named Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York as his running mate, the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket. Now, Walz has joined a ticket that could lead to the nation’s first female president. Humphrey and Mondale, who were inextricably linked for decades, had very different experiences as vice president. Humphrey served as the No. 2 to domineering President Lyndon B. Johnson and “suffered the brunt of Johnson’s unpredictable wrath” for suggesting an exit...