Hysteria, like controversy, is usually a manufactured phenomenon in Washington. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
No value is more worthy of active protection than the right to vote of every citizen. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
You can either spend your time griping about nothing getting done or you can vote to help elect people who will do… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
With as many missteps as McCarthy has made, he should fear that Trump will do to him what he did to Jeff… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
If folks wanted Obama to get all the things done they wanted him to get done, they should have shown up at… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Newsom's willingness to fight Republicans on their turf is exactly what Democrats need to replicate. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
We've long known that Trump's theatrics have always been about pumping up his own image, especially at the expense of people of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
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. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Ever since Trump summoned a mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
We have long known that former president Donald Trump is the kind of racial arsonist who brings a gas can to an… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I interviewed Biden once as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and once as president-elect. Each time, he made a personal… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
If Republicans aren't willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be,… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if only some… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be nominated for and to win an Oscar. It was a step forward, even… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
Woke supremacy' ranks up there with that tired crutch of the right known as 'cancel culture.' The purpose of both phrases is to shield… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
We'll never understand this country as long as book banning, tip lines and legislation to bubble-wrap the tender White souls among us continue to… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
Scapegoating is as American as apple pie. And because there's almost always a racial or ethnic dynamic to it in our country, scapegoating is… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
The harsh truth is that 'respectability' is the exorbitant tax we African Americans are forced to pay daily as we try to live out… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
One of the best strategies to learn something new during an interview is to ask the subject if there was a question they wished… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
If you've been to a pride parade, you know it's a celebration of acceptance and inclusion. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
In our system of equal branches of government, whatever plan the advocates are demanding from Biden will have to stand on its own in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share
