During her four-decade-long career at the Washington Post, the left-leaning Marcus has covered legal affairs, politics and policy.

Ruth Marcus, a longtime op-ed writer for the Washington Post, quit on Monday after, she said, her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos was killed by publisher.

Veteran Washington Post columnist and associate editor Ruth Marcus quit the paper on Monday after she said publisher Will Lewis "spiked" a column "expressing concern" over owner Jeff Bezos' recently announced new direction for the opinion section.