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How Democrats Learned to Love the Smoke-Filled Room Again
It’s because they want to win.
By Charles Homans
I approach politics with an emphasis on the ideas and activism that inform our politics and are shaped by them.
I joined The Times in 2014 and served as politics editor for The Times Magazine. Before that, I was executive editor of Atavist Magazine, an editor at Foreign Policy and the Washington Monthly and a newspaper and public radio reporter in Washington, D.C., and Alaska. I have also written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, The Economist and other publications. I started my career at The News-Record in Gillette, Wyo., where I covered the energy industry.
In all the various roles I’ve occupied at the Times, I’ve upheld the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook, which states that our reporters may not hold stock in the industries they cover or endorse products, that our sports reporters may not participate in sports gambling, that our political reporters may not contribute to politicians’ campaigns. These are reasonable expectations for any reader to have of our journalists, and I strive to live up to them every day.
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It’s because they want to win.
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