Benjamin Mullin, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire the opinion columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired in September over her social media posts about the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. It also ordered the company to compensate her with back pay. Sarah Miller Espinosa, the arbitrator, said in a written decision Thursday that The Post “did not have good and sufficient cause” to terminate Ms. Attiah and “violated” its labor agreement, according to a copy of the decision shared with The New York Times by Ms. Attiah’s lawyers. “The Washington Post failed to establish the grievant engaged in gross misconduct,” Ms. Espinosa wrote. It was clear from the outset that Attiah’s termination last September was politically (and possibly racially) motivated. She’s the latest person to be compensated after losing their job following comments about Kirk’s killing. I hope she’s reinstated, writes a blistering opinion piece demolishing WaPo for firing her, then promptly quits.