- Jonathan Capehart
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Jonathan Capehart is a member of the Post editorial board and writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog. He is also an MSNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Morning Joe and other dayside programs. Prior to joining The Post in 2007, Capehart was the deputy editor of New York Daily News’s editorial page from 2002 to 2005. He worked as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his successful campaign for mayor of New York City, he was a national affairs columnist for Bloomberg News from 2000 to 2001, and he was a member of the Daily News editorial board from 1993 to 2000. Capehart and the Daily News editorial board won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for their series on the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
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- Violence against Family Research Council is wrong
- Mitt Romney’s ‘divisive and angry’ turn
- Romney campaign tripped by Biden’s ‘chains’
- Paul Ryan: More trouble than he’s worth?
- Paul Ryan is no Sarah Palin
- Mitt Romney already overshadowed by Paul Ryan
- Republicans had it in for Obama before Day 1
- George Zimmerman will stand his ground
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Dirty liar’ edition
- GOP asking for trouble if Palin doesn’t speak
- Turns out Romney didn’t build Bain on his own
- Paul Ryan is a risky pick for Romney
- Chick-fil-hate mail
- Sikh temple shooting: A ‘lone wolf’ in Wisconsin
- Article 1, Section 8 requires compromise
- Friday’s p-Op quiz; ‘Kiss my a$$’ edition
- Ted Cruz (Tea Party-Tex.) victory highlights OWS demise
- Mitt Romney’s credibility gap
- Battleground state trouble for Mitt Romney
- Pew poll shows rising support for gay marriage
- Huckabee is almost right on Chick-fil-A protests
- Biden embraces ‘Obamacare’
- Mitt Romney replicates George Pataki’s strategy
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ edition
- Mitt Romney bombs in London
- Marriage equality’s year ahead in the spotlight
- It’s not OK to ignore this pro-Romney ad
- Not much of a gamble on marriage equality in Md.
- A response to ‘Martin got what he deserved’
- The perfect place for the International AIDS Conference
- George Zimmerman’s ‘bizarre’ week
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Retired retroactively’ edition
- Zimmerman should ‘regret’ Hannity interview
- Gays worry Gov. O’Malley is gambling with marriage equality
- Zimmerman’s appalling and irrelevant alleged sexual assault
- Romney’s current Bain woes were planted two months ago
- George Zimmerman goes judge shopping
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘You’re looking at him’ edition
- Romney declares independence from birthers at NAACP convention
- Romney’s hollow NAACP speech
- Boos and respect for Romney at NAACP convention
- On tax returns, Mitt won’t follow the leader — his dad
- What ending the Bush tax cuts for wealthy looks like
- Mitt Romney needs a ‘pink press conference’
- Chris Christie doesn’t want to be vice president
- Did George Zimmerman try to get away with murder?
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Coming out’ edition
- Romney’s taxing twist on health care mandate
- The midterm p-Op quiz: ‘Fireworks’ edition
- Allen West’s runaway slave rhetoric
- Joe Walsh takes blind shot at Duckworth
- Anderson Cooper: Out in the open
- Roberts’s health care ruling raises DOMA worry
- Zimmerman caught on tape: The screams
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘SCOTUS’ edition
- Zimmerman caught on tape: Trayvon’s hands
- Zimmerman caught on tape: ‘Punks’
- Zimmerman caught on tape: ‘It sounds like you’re looking for him’
- This week in bad fashion: Obama’s brown suit — again
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Contempt’ edition
- Pelosi accurately diagnoses GOP amnesia on Dream Act
- Pelosi defends her infamous health care remark
- Good news, bad news and the economy
- Romney’s ‘Wawas’ story in context, still out of touch
- George Zimmerman’s callous ‘hoodie’ comment
- Mitt Romney’s American safari
- This week in fab fashion: George H. W. Bush’s socks
- Panetta comes out for gay troops
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Chocolate goodies’ edition
- Obama and Romney economic speeches: Time to get specific
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- Stand Your Ground hearing: The risk for George Zimmerman and the prosecution
- This week in fab fashion: Obama’s symphony in blue
- Obama’s private-sector slip is not ‘fine’
- Boyd Brown: A voice of a generation out of South Carolina
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Recall’ edition
- Pro-choice for Hillary Clinton
- One-two punch: Wisconsin recall down, health-care ruling to go
- Proposition 8 appears headed for a Supreme hearing
- Let Hillary Clinton be
- Zimmerman arm-in-arm with police — this time
- The spring of Obama’s jobs discontent
- Stop waiting for and start paying attention to our first black president
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Bloviating ignoramus’ edition
- Unanimous appeals court ruling: DOMA unconstitutional
- Christie could teach Romney about leadership
- Falling at the pump: gas prices and GOP credibility
- The Romney-Trump-Nugent-Limbaugh ticket
- One more thing about Obama, Jacob and race
- Jefferson, our ‘barbarous ancestors’ and marriage
- Romney wants to be president at all costs
- This week in bad fashion: Thomas Gore’s hat
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Nauseating’ edition
- EXCLUSIVE: Support grows for Maryland’s same-sex marriage law
- Photo speaks volumes about Obama and race
- The Obama effect: Marriage equality gains ground
- Obama’s Southern problem is no surprise
- Three ‘nauseating’ political missteps
- The Occupy movement is going nowhere
- The killing of Trayvon Martin: Documents shed more light but not much clarity
- Obama leads on marriage equality, the NAACP and others follow
- This week in bad fashion: Obama’s brown suit
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln’ edition
- More answers in the killing of Trayvon Martin
- The killing of Trayvon Martin: Shoddy police work
- As expected, ‘The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama’
- The deficit and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Reports on Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman don’t answer one key question [Corrected]
- Faint glimmers of hope on the economy
- Reaction to Newsweek’s ‘gay’ Obama cover: Death of the metaphor
- Calling Obama the first gay president seems about right
- Obama’s Bain ad hits on tale of two visions of America
- Why marriage equality matters
- Mitt Romney’s ‘hijinks’ was and is bullying
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Evolved’ edition
- O’Malley: Obama’s gay-marriage stance will help in Maryland
- On gay marriage, Obama’s words finally match his deeds
- ‘Losing forward’ with North Carolina’s Amendment One
- Will Obama’s ‘evolution’ on same-sex marriage be televised?
- North Carolina Amendment One vote: What to watch for
- Don’t blame blacks for Obama’s reticence on same-sex marriage (Updated)
- No comparison between Obama and Romney on same-sex marriage
- Obama should repeat after Arne Duncan: ‘Yes, I do’ on gay marriage
- Obama should follow Biden’s lead on same-sex marriage
- Grenell mess shows Romney still fighting for nomination
- Friday's p-Op quiz: ‘$1K tee’ edition
- Romney fights for Chen Guangcheng but not Richard Grenell
- About Ann Romney’s $1K tee
- Richard Grenell is out at Romney campaign
- Elizabeth Warren’s needless ‘Native American’ problem
- What would Romney have done about Osama bin Laden?
- Obama right to crow about killing Osama bin Laden
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Blah, blah, blah’ edition
- Joel Ward gets body checked by the N-word
- Ugly attacks in the name of Trayvon Martin
- Gingrich calls ‘May Day’ on his campaign
- Obama’s North Carolina trip not as ‘foolhardy’ as Parker thinks
- Richard Grenell chose power over principle on marriage equality
- Gingrich’s Secret Service protection makes no ‘sense’
- Observation: Ron Barber and Lord Burghley
- Obama: Don’t punt on the federal contractor executive order
- George Zimmerman’s ‘sorry’ day in court
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Secret Service’ edition
- Where’s Romney’s outrage over Ted Nugent?
- Mitt ‘unzips’ in a quiet room called Palm Beach
- Republicans running out of gas on fuel prices?
- Bush, Cheney and the ‘unmitigated disaster’ to statesmanship
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Arrested’ edition
- Selective outrage: Hilary Rosen vs. Allen West
- Pursuing justice: George Zimmerman arrested, charged with second-degree murder
- Unexpected allies against same-sex marriage ban in North Carolina
- Rick Santorum bows out
- Good news, bad news polls for Obama and Romney
- Trayvon Martin brings out the worst in people
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- Why hasn’t George Zimmerman been arrested for killing Trayvon Martin?
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Unzip Mitt’ edition
- Gays come out for justice for Trayvon Martin
- Burger King chickens out on Mary J. Blige
- Obama transMitts clear message to Republicans
- Obama, Cameron and their evolution on marriage equality
- Sarah Palin co-hosts the ‘Today’ show
- Would 2009 Pew poll on attitudes toward race hold up today?
- Zimmerman video is the new Zapruder film
- George Zimmerman’s ‘Justified’ defense?
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Hoodie’ edition
- George Zimmerman’s crumbling story, part 3: the detective
- George Zimmerman’s crumbling story, part 2: the mortician
- George Zimmerman’s crumbling story, part 1: the video
- Trayvon Martin’s parents speak: some questions answered
- Don’t trust Joe Oliver’s ‘gut feeling’ about his ‘friend’ George Zimmerman
- Divide and conquer on same-sex marriage
- The killing of Trayvon Martin: More questions
- Sanford Police throw pot at Trayvon Martin
- Blood money: $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman
- Soul-searching and the killing of Trayvon Martin
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- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Etch A Sketch’ edition
- Walking in Trayvon Martin’s footsteps
- Justice for Trayvon Martin: Questions
- Pursuing justice for Trayvon Martin
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- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘Delegate math’ edition
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- Whitman-Walker’s stunning turnaround
- Viagra and the little blue bill of Ohio
- Steve Schmidt’s brutally honest assessment of Sarah Palin
- Mark Zandi’s stimulating news about the economy
- Sarah Palin plays ‘gotcha’ on issue of vetting
- Mitt Romney’s ‘cheesy’ play for votes
- ‘Game Change’: McCain plays statesman, Palin plays star
- Friday’s p-Op quiz: ‘He’s a punk’ edition
- Romney might be the one who needs an ‘act of God’
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