Latest from Jonathan Capehart
  • Opinion

Being Black in America is exhausting

No matter our gender, age or socioeconomic status, we live our lives under siege.
  • Apr 17, 2021
  • Podcast

Rebecca Carroll talks about her experience as a Black woman being raised by White parents

The author of "Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir" discusses her Opinions piece on transracial adoption: "Trying to navigate this existence and this identity, it was just exhausting."
  • Apr 13, 2021
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  • Opinion

Joe Manchin’s elusive hunt for a pony named ‘bipartisanship’

Bipartisanship with the party of Donald Trump?
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • Opinion

‘Woke’ to Republican hypocrisy on corporations

They love corporations until they get too mouthy in the public square.
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • Podcast

Heather McGhee explains how racism keeps everyone from having nice things

McGhee discusses her book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together," and unpacks one big example of inequality holding everyone back: the large municipal swimming pools of the 1960s.
  • Apr 6, 2021
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  • Opinion

On the filibuster, ‘stop being afraid of Mitch McConnell ’cause he’s not afraid of you’

If the only way to safeguard voting rights is to blow up the filibuster, then ignore McConnell’s taunts and do it.
  • Mar 31, 2021
  • Podcast

Sen. Jeff Merkley has been pushing for filibuster reform since 2011. This time, he might get it done

The Oregon Democrat stares down threats from Mitch McConnell to fix a rule that he says has broken the Senate.
  • Mar 30, 2021
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Andy Kim and the ‘politics of humility’ in the midst of anti-Asian hate

"I feel like I’m hitting up against places where I don’t know if I can make the difference that I feel is needed."
  • Mar 25, 2021
  • Podcast

Rep. Andy Kim talks about the impact of anti-Asian hate: 'I wish I knew what to say to my kids'

The New Jersey congressman discusses his family’s experiences as Asian Americans and the role he hopes to play in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings.
  • Mar 23, 2021
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  • Opinion

Asian Americans must not fight white terror alone

The indifference to lives not White must stop.
  • Mar 20, 2021
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