Leans right
AllSides places the Post on the right. Ad Fontes Media places it further right still. We publish the more cautious of the two.
Summarized from more than one independent rater, including AllSides and Ad Fontes Media. We do not rate outlets ourselves.
The Post is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States, and for most of the last thirty years it has been the most widely read conservative tabloid in the country. Its opinion section is openly partisan and does not pretend otherwise. Readers on the right generally count that as honesty; readers on the left generally count it as the problem.
The reason the two raters land in different places is a real feature of the paper rather than a quirk of their methods. Its news desk and its opinion pages sit further apart than at most outlets, so a rater that weighs one more heavily than the other ends up somewhere different.