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For Washington insiders and people in the media, Politico publishes some of the wonkiest reporting inside the Beltway. It\u2019s not what you\u2019d call a mass-market publication, but it\u2019s highly influential\u2014it was Politico that obtained and published Samuel Alito\u2019s draft opinion of the Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade. The German news publisher Axel Springer, led by the C.E.O. Mathias D\xf6pfner, acquired Politico last year for more than a billion dollars. \u201cI believe that journalism has a very bright future if we get some things right,\u201d D\xf6pfner tells David Remnick. The C.E.O. relishes taking provocative stances, but he has been a vocal critic of media outlets that he says increasingly cater to partisan audiences; he cites as an example the\xa0resignation\xa0of a New York\xa0Times\xa0editor over the publication of a right-wing opinion piece. \u201cIt is not about objectivity or neutrality,\u201d he tells Remnick. \u201cIt is about plurality.\u201d Politico, D\xf6pfner says, is taking \u201ca kind of contrarian bet: if everybody polarizes, the few who do differently may have the better future.\u201d