Leans right
Summarized from more than one independent rater, including AllSides and Ad Fontes Media. We do not rate outlets ourselves.
Founded in 2005 and owned by Clarity Media Group, controlled by the billionaire Philip Anschutz. It began as a free local paper and became a national conservative outlet covering Congress and the White House.
It employs real Capitol Hill reporters and its news coverage is more conventional than its opinion pages suggest. Critics argue the two are insufficiently separated, and that a publication owned by a single conservative donor faces the same independence question that critics of billionaire-owned liberal papers raise.