The Washington Post recently published two op-eds by Scott Greer, “a writer who years ago expressed racist and antisemitic views for an online white-supremacist publication,” according to Politico. For context: Greer wrote for Richard Spencer’s “Radix Journal” under a pseudonym. After Politico reached out for comment, WaPo removed the articles.That move might come across as a squirrelly act of insecurity in the middle of a turbulent time for Post Opinions. After all, WaPo has been widely criticized for editorial decisions downstream of Jeff Bezos’s new vision for the paper – including his declaration that Opinions would henceforth only publish writing that was in defense of “personal freedoms and free markets” – two values he deemed central to America’s success and underrepresented in American media.Another core aspect of the Post’s rebrand was its new goal of reaching “all of America.” Supposedly in service of this goal, a mysterious new section lives on the Washington Post’s website called “Ripple.” The page appears to be syndicating articles from various websites. Just under the word “Ripple” reads “Opinions from across America.” However, there is no clear evidence that Ripple is under the control of Post Opinions because it lives at the top of the general website in a list of sections, separate from Opinions, between “WP Intelligence” and “Games.”In June 2025, the New York Times’s Benjamin Mullin wrote that the Post was planning to expand its lineup to include “many published opinion articles from other newspapers across America, writers on Substack and eventually nonprofessional writers, according to four people familiar with the plan.”Mullin wrote that the Post had just hired an editor to oversee the program, referred to as Ripple. The program was set to include a “final phase, allowing nonprofessionals to submit columns with help from an A.I. writing coach called Ember” beginning in the fall of 2026. “Human editors would review submissions before........

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