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Politico’s Final Print Edition

After 19 years today marks the last print edition of Politico, it continues in the digital world.

cover of Politico December 18, 2025

The hard copy of Politico was published twice weekly when Congress was in session, less frequently when Congress was in recess, and distributed to the offices of most of the elected people in Washington, D.C.

John F. Harris writes the tabloid’s front page obituary.

Inside Bill Kuchman selects notable front pages for a double truck centerspread.

And Matt Wuerker, Politico’s editorial cartoonist, bids farewell to print.

Matt Wuerker, Politico – December 18, 2025

Matt Wuerker comments:

Today is the end of an era. Politico has always been a digital platform, but from the beginning we’ve also had a print edition that was aimed at the Inside the Beltway crowd. Today’s is the last issue of that print edition…

All my life professional life, cartoonists are a paper-based life form, it’s been just a given that in the end the object is to appear in print. But from here on out I have to settle for just pixels. It feels strange.

Politico, the Print Edition, January 23, 2007 – December 18, 2025.

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