Jonathan Capehart

5 days ago | phillytrib.com | Jonathan Capehart

The person least surprised by the Justice Department’s decision this week to drop the consent decree granting federal oversight of the Minneapolis Police Department might have been Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. I got Ellison on the phone last week to talk about our nation in the five years since the slow-motion murder of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Jonathan Capehart

Keith Ellison on countering Trump: Courage, imagination and lots of lawsuits (washingtonpost.com) Keith Ellison on countering Trump: Courage, imagination and lots of lawsuits By Jonathan Capehart 2025052512472500 The person least surprised by the Justice Department's decision this week to drop the consent decree granting federal oversight of the Minneapolis police department might have been Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

2 weeks ago | brooklyndigest.org | Jonathan Capehart |Jason Schott

Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for HomeBy Jonathan CapehartGrand Central Publishing; hardcover, 272 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, May 20thJonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and a co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC. Capehart is an Associate Editor at the Washington Post, where he also writes an opinion column, and he is an analyst for The PBS News Hour.

2 weeks ago | kirkusreviews.com | Jonathan Capehart

A lively, sometimes rueful, always illuminating look at the business of journalism by a knowing practitioner. The noted journalist recounts his reckonings with sexuality, love, racism, and many other charged topics. Early on in his memoir, Capehart, best known as a commentator for MSNBC and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post, writes of being known among his Southern cousins as “Mr. Peabody,” the bookishly bespectacled cartoon dog. “And I was a little ‘funny,’” he adds.

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Jonathan Capehart

This Iowan’s raw anger could make him the new anti-Trump (washingtonpost.com) This Iowan’s raw anger could make him the new anti-Trump By Jonathan Capehart 2025051310002100 As Democrats try to figure out what to say — and who should say it — to win back the trust of voters, Nathan Sage is saying it with uncommon fight in his voice. And he's doing it in Iowa, a place where Democrats hope to defy gravity in next year's midterm elections.