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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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s surprise announcement that she is registering as an independent is an epic gamble born of necessity. It’s probably her only chance at keeping her Arizona Senate seat beyond 2024. Yet even if she does run as an independent, winning reelection is far from guaranteed, to put it charitably.
Sinema — who alienated many Democratic voters through her opposition to large swaths of President Biden’s agenda — was certain to face a Democratic primary challenger in 2024. And she all but certainly would have lost.
That leaves becoming an independent as her only option if she wants to remain in office beyond one term. But even so, Sinema will face a highly difficult reelection battle, because there will all but certainly be a Democratic nominee running for her Senate seat, and the Democratic Party in Arizona will all but certainly support that nominee.
“The Arizona Democratic Party expects at least one Democrat to run for the Senate seat,” a source familiar with the party’s thinking told me. “The party will continue supporting Democrats up and down the ticket.”