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![]() Jonathan CapehartWashington Post |
Ever since the Jan. 6 committee showed that video of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) running from the insurrectionist mob he’d earlier encouraged with a...
Boxing great Muhammad Ali is believed to have said, “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” A...
President Biden issued an executive order to protect reproductive health care last week. This week, the Justice Department announced the establishment...
Okay, America. Now that the celebration of your 246th birthday is over, you’ve got some work to do. Or, at least the “you” who are Democrats do....
Before the reality of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade made my blood boil, Justice Clarence Thomas had turned my...
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Black people are not afraid of White people. We’re afraid of “crazy” White people. Let me try to...
To justify stripping women of their right to choose an abortion, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s leaked draft opinion had to pull from all...
Until Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade was published Monday, I didn’t fully...
“So who am I? I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom …” Well, I’m not. In fact, with the exception of being Christian and...
An Estonian diplomat tells NATO exactly how to handle Putin.
The rest of “us” felt the Oscars slap, too. And it hurts.
To hear the Senate minority leader tell it, the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is all but a liberal soft-on-crime plot...
Forgive my tardiness in responding to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s (R) rebuttal Tuesday to President Biden’s State of the Union address. It has taken...
When I came out to my mother in 1990, her first words of advice were to not tell anyone. She said being gay could hurt my nascent career. The reaction...
The California governor's plan on guns is an example of Democrats fighting Republicans on their own turf.
The first time I saw Deb Haaland cry, she was a congresswoman from New Mexico, and she was standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. It...
Of all the attempts around the country to coddle the snowflakes among us who can’t handle the reality that our shared history is equal parts noble...
The rage of the ancestors roiled within me when I heard talk of Black voters giving up.
Northam talked about “the yearbook incident” with the refreshing humility of someone who has been through and learned from a searing experience.