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WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s a weird time to live in the nation’s capital. Well, at least a weirder time than usual.
Concentrating America’s political industry along a small stretch of the Potomac was always bound to create an odd culture—young, highly transient, hypereducated, and vocationally obsessive.
Alex Demas is an editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he worked in England as a financial journalist and earned his MA in Political Economy at King's College London. When not heroically combating misinformation online, Alex can be found mixing cocktails, watching his beloved soccer team Aston Villa lose a match, or attempting to pet stray cats.
