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Nobody Asked for This Washington Post Podcast

Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter.

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Parker Molloy
May 13, 2026
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“The Politics of Conversion Therapy”

Those are real video titles from “Make It Make Sense,” the Washington Post Opinion section’s new flagship podcast, which the paper officially launched on Monday, a day after the media newsletter Status reported that the …

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