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The $1 sale of Newsweek magazine to billionaire Sidney Harman, who is married to a member of Congress, is raising questions about the struggling magazine’s new connections to partisan politics. Harman, husband of California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman, has long financially supported Democratic candidates and has been associated with numerous center-left groups over the past decades. According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, Harman has donated more than $150,000 to Democratic candidates and committees over the past twenty years. (He also gave $6,000 to independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman in 2005-2006, $4,600 to Maine Sen. Susan Collins...

It's official. The 77 year old magazine Newsweek will remain safely in politically liberal hands. The Washington Post Company put the financially failing periodical up for sale in May, declined two offers from potential buyers deemed politically incompatible in June and has now agreed to sell to Sidney Harman, the 91-year-old founder of a stereo equipment company who just happens to be married to US Representative Jane Harman (D-California).

A deal to sell Newsweek to a 91-year-old stereo equipment magnate could be announced as early as today, a move that would signal the end of a half-century of ownership by The Washington Post Company.