The move – which reflects the Post's narrowing of focus from a general-interest opinion section that reflected a wide swath of views – follows the paper’s decision in October to stop endorsing presidential candidates, a practice it had employed for 36 years.

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the Washington Post, is making changes to the newspaper’s opinion pages to limit what he described as viewpoints opposing “personal liberties and free markets.”

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper.