They’ve been running left-of-center op-eds on a regular basis for years. The op-ed pages aren’t the top problem. It’s the rest of the ecosystem around them, which means that:

• most people don’t access trustworthy news in the first place
• equal consideration is given to meaningful content like this and utter lies
• important stories about right-wing malfeasance don’t get repeated again and again and again until they sink in