Jonathan Capehart

Antiabortion activists and Republican lawmakers have been gearing up for a nationwide ban since before Roe was overturned.

Everyone should know who really respects marriage - and who stands 'in cahoots' with the people legislating against queer families.

Children listen - intently. They absorb all manner of information like little sponges.

Trump ushered the fringe into the mainstream.

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.

Masculinity should never be about exclusion or intolerance, nor displays of unyielding strength.

I mean, who doesn't like a manhood-obsessed hypocrite getting a well-deserved public comeuppance?

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 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.

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.

We have long known that former president Donald Trump is the kind of racial arsonist who brings a gas can to an inferno.

With as many missteps as McCarthy has made, he should fear that Trump will do to him what he did to Jeff Sessions.

Trump is a man for whom loyalty is a one-way street.

Voting should be as easy as possible. Period.

Trump's problems with race is an old story for New York.

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.

If the Senate really wanted to take a big step to protect LGBTQ Americans and our families, it would finally pass the Equality Act.

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.

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.

As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions.