Petula is a columnist for The Washington Post's local team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, the politics of parenting, jails, abortion clinics, mayors, modern families, strip clubs and gas prices, among other things.
It may not be strictly necessary for a ComPost writer to be a socialist, queer, babykilling tyrant ... but perhaps it helps.
I think it is necessary to be those things to work for a leftist media outlet