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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Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat, represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
I am proud to have lived my life in two of the world’s great democracies — as a citizen of India for almost 35 years, and today, as a proud American citizen and the first Indian American woman elected to the House of Representatives.
The United States and India — the world’s longest-running democracy and the world’s largest democracy — have shared a unique and important relationship for decades that has weathered disagreements and tensions on the core premise that our countries are important to each other and to global stability. Both our Constitutions begin with the words, “We, the People.” And during the civil rights movement, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. identified Mahatma Gandhi and his movement for nonviolent resistance as a core inspiration.