"The New York Times" has described the "Daily News"s editorial stance as "flexibly centrist" with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy". For over five decades, the "News" was a staunchly Republican newspaper, in line with its sister publication, the "Chicago Tribune", supporting isolationism in the early stages of World War II. By the mid-1970s however, it began shifting its stance, and during the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the right-wing "Post" (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion).