Jonathan Capehart
Look, as an institutionalist who recognizes the power of incrementalism in the slow but steady march to equality, I'm used to seeing the forest for the trees.Collection: Equality
Really, we need anyone who believes in basic respect and equality under the law to be fearless - especially if they haven't had to struggle for those things themselves.Collection: Equality
Masculinity should never be about exclusion or intolerance, nor displays of unyielding strength.Collection: Strength
Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my driver's license, health insurance card and Washington Post business card with my husband's cellphone number and message to call him in an emergency.Collection: Health
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if only some of the governed are allowed to vote.Collection: Independence
We have long known that former president Donald Trump is the kind of racial arsonist who brings a gas can to an inferno.
There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No matter our gender, age or socioeconomic status, we are viewed as threats. As a result, we live under siege.
Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who dissent against acts of 'raw judicial power' that would take those rights away.
Stand strong in your beliefs and fight for them, even if it makes friends nervous and angers the other side.
Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and light on lasting change.
Trump thrives on spite, vengeance and public humiliation.
I'm gay, and I'm Black, and I'm a city slicker with no children.
Activists who aren't 'straight, white and Christian' have pushed back against bigotry for many generations, and they have secured hard-won advances.
It's not enough to, say, put up a black square on your Instagram feed and proclaim that Black Lives Matter. You can't just talk about your beliefs. You have to act on them.
Don't come on my show and tell me two plus two equals five. That is a waste of my time, and more importantly that is a waste of my audience's time.
I'm a reporter who comes at the news with a point of view.
With the platform given to me by 'The Sunday Show,' I'm able for two hours to shine the spotlight in a place where people are either already looking or didn't know they needed to look there.
There is a struggle going on in the country over who we are as a people. Over the rule of law, over the meaning of the Constitution, and the role of the citizenry in protecting the Constitution and protecting the country.
In 1992, Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were elected to the Senate - the first time women held both seats from the same state. But Feinstein became California's first female senator by being sworn in early to complete the final days of a retired male senator's unfinished term.
In Washington, she has really made her mark. Feinstein has chaired both the Intelligence Committee and the Rules and Administration Committee - positions of particular distinction reserved for the Senate's more substantive members.
As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions.
New Yorkers have borne witness to a slew of horrific crimes that strike at the heart of their collective sense of security.
I'm not saying that Kamala Harris walks on water. Her Chuck Taylors got plenty wet from the growing pains that come with adjusting to being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Harris has ably fulfilled the role Biden chose her to perform. She was an instrumental partner in helping to shepherd the first Black woman onto the Supreme Court.
If the Senate really wanted to take a big step to protect LGBTQ Americans and our families, it would finally pass the Equality Act.
In a perfect world, nothing will happen to Obergefell. And as long as that remains the case, the Respect for Marriage Act would be little more than the legislative equivalent of insurance. It's not the most comprehensive policy. But it's better to have half a safeguard than nothing at all if disaster strikes.
When I first met the Rev. Al Sharpton in 1993 as a cub editorial writer at the New York Daily News, he had already earned a reputation as a rabble-rouser at the center of every racial controversy in the Big Apple.
We've long known that Trump's theatrics have always been about pumping up his own image, especially at the expense of people of color.
Trump's problems with race is an old story for New York.
Voting should be as easy as possible. Period.
Long before the abolition of a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, red and reddish states were putting up obstacles to that right.
Women who have successfully run that gantlet to get the care they needed or wanted are heroic. But it's clear they should not have had to jump through any of those hoops to get it.
Trump is a man for whom loyalty is a one-way street.
With as many missteps as McCarthy has made, he should fear that Trump will do to him what he did to Jeff Sessions.
When you're Black in America, you spend a lot of time counting firsts. The higher the first, the more we marvel (and shake our heads at how long it took to happen.) The higher the first, the more the person who achieved it comes to represent how we want the nation to see us.
I interviewed Biden once as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and once as president-elect. Each time, he made a personal pronouncement that elicited my cocked eyebrow of skepticism simply because the environment in which he made it was unfavorable. But over time, Biden proved the skeptics wrong.
Democrats being Democrats, count on those nettlesome conversations about whether Biden will or should run for reelection to reemerge with end-of-the-world urgency.
I mean, who doesn't like a manhood-obsessed hypocrite getting a well-deserved public comeuppance?
Hawley may be a clown, but he's clever, too. He knows White men feel they're facing a crisis, and he plans to give them an answer.
Some of the best men I've known have had generous hearts that reinforced firm values and high expectations.
Ever since Trump summoned a mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Liz Cheney has made it her mission to destroy him.
The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was far from perfect; the party's social conservatism excluded millions of Americans who didn't fit its cramped views of society.
Trump ushered the fringe into the mainstream.
Children listen - intently. They absorb all manner of information like little sponges.
Everyone should know who really respects marriage - and who stands 'in cahoots' with the people legislating against queer families.
Antiabortion activists and Republican lawmakers have been gearing up for a nationwide ban since before Roe was overturned.
Biden is a president elected by the people, not a king ruling from on high. He needs a House and Senate that will send him legislation he can sign into law.
To argue that voting is a waste of time or useless is to participate in your own powerlessness.
You can either spend your time griping about nothing getting done or you can vote to help elect people who will do what the American people need.
Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be, voter participation is the one power individuals can wield against those headwinds.