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"If Democrats need to choose another candidate, they need to make the process as competitive and open as possible"
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'Democrats need to hold a real contest'

Ezra Klein at The New York Times

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Anya Jaremko-Greenwold has worked as a story editor at The Week since 2024. She previously worked at FLOOD Magazine, Woman's World, First for Women, DGO Magazine and BOMB Magazine. Anya's culture writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Jezebel, Vice and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.