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Do not fill this in! ===Controversial op-eds and columns=== Several ''Washington Post'' op-eds and columns have prompted criticism, including a number of comments on race by columnist [[Richard Cohen (columnist)|Richard Cohen]] over the years,<ref>Andrew Beaujon, [https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/23/richard-cohen-leaves-the-washington-post/ Richard Cohen Leaves the Washington Post] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809103548/https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/23/richard-cohen-leaves-the-washington-post/ |date=August 9, 2020 }}, ''Washington Post'' (September 23, 2019): "In the years since he displayed a remarkable ability to survive at the paper despite ...frequently stepping in it with regard to race, like the time he wrote that 'People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York β a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children; or the time that he wrote sympathetically about the man who killed Trayvon Martin..."</ref><ref>Maya K. Francis, [https://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/11/13/richard-cohen-bill-de-blasio-family-race/ Richard Cohen's Been Gag-Worthy on Race for Years] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804234944/https://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/11/13/richard-cohen-bill-de-blasio-family-race/ |date=August 4, 2020 }}, ''Philadelphia Magazine'' (November 13, 2013).</ref> and a controversial 2014 column on [[campus sexual assault]] by [[George Will]].<ref>Hadas Gold, [https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/06/george-will-slammed-for-sexual-assault-column-190088 George Will slammed for sexual assault column] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809070844/https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/06/george-will-slammed-for-sexual-assault-column-190088 |date=August 9, 2020 }}, ''Politico'' (June 10, 2014).</ref><ref>Alyssa Rosenberg, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/10/george-wills-distasteful-conclusions-about-sexual-assault/ George Will's distasteful conclusions about sexual assault] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201053448/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/10/george-wills-distasteful-conclusions-about-sexual-assault/ |date=February 1, 2021 }}, ''Washington Post'' (June 10, 2014).</ref> The ''Post''{{'}}s decision to run an op-ed by [[Mohammed Ali al-Houthi]], a leader in [[Yemen]]'s [[Houthi movement]], was criticized by some activists on the basis that it provided a platform to an "anti-Western and [[antisemitic]] group supported by Iran."<ref name="slam2">{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/washington-post-slammed-for-op-ed-by-antisemitic-houthi-leader-571537|title='Washington Post' slammed for op-ed by antisemitic Houthi leader|date=November 10, 2018|publisher=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=May 31, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523085349/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/washington-post-slammed-for-op-ed-by-antisemitic-houthi-leader-571537|url-status=live}}</ref> The headline of a 2020 op-ed titled "It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president" was changed, without an editor's note, after backlash.<ref>{{Cite news|website=Fox News|title=Washington Post slammed, changes headline after op-ed calls for 'elites' to have 'bigger say in choosing the president'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-changes-headline-after-op-ed-calls-for-elites-have-bigger-say-choosing-president|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017100242/https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-changes-headline-after-op-ed-calls-for-elites-have-bigger-say-choosing-president|date=February 19, 2020|archive-date=October 17, 2021|last=Wolfsuhn|first=Joseph}}</ref> In 2022, actor [[Johnny Depp]] successfully sued ex-wife [[Amber Heard]] for an op-ed she wrote in ''The Washington Post'' where she described herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse two years after she had publicly accused him of domestic violence.<ref>{{cite news |last=Heard |first=Amber |title=Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence β and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 18, 2018 |access-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412184930/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ive-seen-how-institutions-protect-men-accused-of-abuse-heres-what-we-can-do/2018/12/18/71fd876a-02ed-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bryant |first1=Kenzie |title=Johnny Depp Wins His Defamation Case Against Ex-Wife Amber Heard |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/06/johnny-depp-amber-heard-defamation-case-verdict |date=June 1, 2022 |access-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901085450/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/06/johnny-depp-amber-heard-defamation-case-verdict |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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