The Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart takes the Republican Party to task for its continual disrespect of President Barack Obama. “I’m old enough to remember the days when an invitation to the White House to meet with the president was a clear-your-calendar occasion. Not anymore.” President Obama can’t win. On the one hand, he is a…

Writing at the Washington Post, Jonathan Capehart explains why a detente may be fleeting in the latest searing bipartisan battle on Capitol Hill. He says President Barack Obama is done rewarding the GOP’s bad behavior.  As the sad drama of Miriam Carey was unfolding on Pennsylvania Avenue, I was listening to a Republican member of Congress talk…

After listening to a pastor’s remarks, the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart tries to dispel the seemingly unshakable belief among some religious leaders that “homosexuality is a sin and a choice.” He explains, rather, that it is a “God-given trait as immutable” as his skin color. I took a stand against religion-based anti-gay bigotry while sitting…

On the heels of a recent campaign video in which Anthony Weiner proclaims that “quit isn’t the way we roll in New York City,” Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart writes that scandal-plagued mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is dangerously close to becoming the person that people in his hometown love to hate. Folks may not like…

The Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart says it’s despicable that people are circulating a photo of tattooed Los Angeles rapper The Game and saying it’s Trayvon Martin. He’s says it a vicious attempt to defame the slain teen by portraying him as a thug. People! Listen, and listen closely. The photo you’re still passing around via…

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart says that former neighborhood-watch captain George Zimmerman lied about the positon of Trayvon Martin’s hands after the scuffle that resulted in teen’s death. Already skeptical of Zimmerman’s claim of getting on top of the teen after shooting him to “push his arms apart,” Capehart explains that that encounter never happened and…

Dr. Ben Carson and Alaska’s Rep. Don Young are two examples of how out of touch the GOP is with a country that has moved well beyond the casual acceptance of bigotry, Jonathan Capehart writes in a blog post at the Washington Post. The Republican Party and some of its acolytes on the right have…

Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, tells Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart that she is “still in disbelief” over his death, not only because it was so sudden but also because he was just a teenager. “It was … you know, it was my baby,” she said. “From that day until now, I’m still in disbelief.…

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart unpacks the significance of the fact that the president of the United States used an inaugural address to acknowledge and affirm the place of gay people in the history and ongoing story of America. At no point was President Obama’s refrain of “We the people” in his second inaugural more…