Jim VandeHei has a knack for being ahead of the curve. In 2006, he bolted from the Washington Post with John Harris for the upstart Politico, which shook up Washington journalism with its aggressive style. In 2016, amid squabbles with ownership, he left along with star reporter Mike Allen and co-founded Axios, which became one of the defining outlets of the Trump era. (It sold to Cox Industries for $525 million in 2022.) Lately, VandeHei...