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Opinion writer Jonathan Capehart talks with newsmakers who challenge your ideas on politics, and explore how race, religion, age, gender and cultural identity are redrawing the lines that both divide and unite America. "Capehart" is a podcast from Washington Post Opinions, with conversations adapted from Washington Post Live events.

Inside Andrew Gillum’s campaign to become Florida’s first black governor

44 mins; August 28, 2018

'We think prison is the only way to hold people accountable when they break the law'

41 mins; August 20, 2018

How Robert Runcie helped the Parkland generation find their voice

39 mins; August 14, 2018

Arthur Brooks says contempt is not just bad for marriages. It kills politics and the country, too.

30 mins; August 07, 2018

‘I am more forgiving’: When Alex Wagner learned the truth about her family’s history

50 mins; July 31, 2018

‘It’s like he took a knee to Putin’: Mitch Landrieu on Helsinki, and the Democrats’ identity crisis

45 mins; July 24, 2018

How your data is used by the police and where it goes wrong

41 mins; July 17, 2018

David Miliband on immigration crisis: “What’s going on is dehumanization”

27 mins; July 10, 2018

'Stop acting as though Trump is the first,' says the Rev. William Barber

55 mins; July 03, 2018

Jeh Johnson speaks out on separating immigrant families: ‘It’s just something I couldn’t do’

50 mins; June 26, 2018

Will lightning strike twice in the South? Andrew Gillum campaigns in Trump country

44 mins; June 19, 2018

Tim Kaine calls out the 'glass jaws' and 'crybabies' of the Trump administration

42 mins; June 12, 2018

Steve Phillips on why Democrats need to stop focusing on the white working class

49 mins; June 05, 2018

Starbucks is closed to talk race. We're open to do the same.

33 mins; May 29, 2018

Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis says rap and hip-hop are 'more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee'

54 mins; May 22, 2018

How Jordan Klepper does satire in the age of Trump

47 mins; May 15, 2018

Kevin de León: Meet the "unicorn" taking on Dianne Feinstein

61 hours 20 mins; May 08, 2018

‘I’m not convinced I’m dead’: Mark Hamill on Luke’s fate, Trump vs. Vader and more

97 hours 9 mins; May 04, 2018

Laugh it up fuzzball!

2 mins; May 01, 2018

Bryan Stevenson TL;DR

14 mins; April 26, 2018

Bryan Stevenson wants us to confront racial terrorism and then say, ‘Never again.’

61 hours 37 mins; April 24, 2018

Robert Kagan on why Americans don't want the U.S. to be the leader of the free world

32 mins; April 17, 2018

Loretta Lynch: "Attorney-client privilege is alive and well in this country."

54 mins; April 10, 2018

"I just felt like something had died in all of us." John Lewis on the death of Martin Luther King

42 mins; April 03, 2018

Police violence affects women of color just as much as men. Why don’t we hear about it?

40 mins; March 27, 2018

Joanne Lipman: "It isn't just women leaning in, we need men to reach across the divide"

47 mins; March 20, 2018

Sen. Chris Murphy on how Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un could be a disaster for the United States

32 mins; March 13, 2018

Eric Holder on running for president: ‘I think I’ve got the guts’

49 mins; March 06, 2018

“We are invisible no matter what heights we’ve risen to”: April Ryan

26 mins; March 01, 2018

Why the most productive conversations around race, are probably the ones you never hear.

41 mins; February 27, 2018

Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

13 mins; February 22, 2018

‘Freedom of speech, but not freedom of action’: Two moms on raising black boys

59 mins; February 20, 2018

Dr. Carla Hayden on being the first female African-American librarian of Congress

27 mins; February 15, 2018

How the ‘home of American slavery’ became a ‘microcosm for the entire country’

46 mins; February 13, 2018

Lucy McBath, who lost her son to gun violence, and DeJuan Patterson, who survived it

35 mins; February 08, 2018

Tamron Hall on being unapologetically black

39 mins; February 06, 2018

Broderick Johnson, former cabinet secretary and chair of My Brother's Keeper Alliance

31 mins; February 01, 2018

Michael Steele's State of the Union

39 mins; January 30, 2018

Michael Wolff in depth on his unprecedented access to Trump

64 hours 40 mins; January 23, 2018

Why Kim Jong Un is ‘very rational within his own context’

44 mins; January 16, 2018

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe reflects on his term in office

36 mins; January 09, 2018

Dionne Warwick on her work in the fight against HIV/AIDS

26 mins; January 02, 2018

Deborah Rutter on how the Kennedy Center is much more than "the honors"

28 mins; December 26, 2017

Rep. Frederica Wilson on Sgt. La David Johnson

40 mins; December 19, 2017

Dan Rather talks about politics and media

45 mins; December 12, 2017

Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum talks about DACA

25 mins; December 05, 2017

Hillary Clinton reflects with raw honesty on Trump and 2016

34 mins; November 28, 2017

‘Hardball’ anchor Chris Matthews on what today’s politicians can learn from Bobby Kennedy

33 mins; November 21, 2017

Russia, the Clinton campaign and Chardonnay: Donna Brazile unloads

51 mins; November 14, 2017

Maya MacGuineas explains the difference between tax reform and tax cuts

29 mins; November 07, 2017

Declaring opioids a public health emergency won't solve the crisis. Here's what will.

30 mins; October 31, 2017

There’s a ‘poisonous dynamic among white people’ over who’s to blame for racism

36 mins; October 24, 2017

Roberta Kaplan on fighting white supremacists in the U.S.

23 mins; October 17, 2017

Stacey Abrams on running to be Georgia's first black female governor

26 mins; October 10, 2017

Broderick Johnson returns to discuss My Brother's Keeper and race relations after Obama

31 mins; October 03, 2017

Trita Parsi explains why pulling out of the nuclear deal with Iran would be harmful

36 mins; September 26, 2017

Aggie Gund and Darren Walker on the Art For Justice Fund

30 mins; September 19, 2017

Howard Dean on young voters: ‘These people are not Democrats’

22 mins; September 12, 2017

Shai Akabas explains the debt ceiling in plain English

24 mins; September 05, 2017

Dr. Carla Hayden on being the first female African-American librarian of Congress

27 mins; August 29, 2017

Outtakes from a year of 'Cape Up' (including one conversation that went off the rails)

16 mins; August 22, 2017

Vanita Gupta on the unabashed display of white supremacy in Charlottesville

19 mins; August 15, 2017

Why Steve Bannon isn't going anywhere

38 mins; August 08, 2017

R. Eric Thomas is the escape from politics that you need right now

32 mins; August 01, 2017

Kamala Harris gets tough on the Russia probe (and ignores the mansplainers)

28 mins; July 25, 2017

Cornell Belcher on the new swing voter

30 mins; July 18, 2017

Sherrilyn Ifill exposes the absurdity of Trump’s election integrity commission

34 mins; July 11, 2017

Fourth of July special: What we’ve learned about Trump from six months of interviews

13 mins; July 04, 2017

Debunking the myths about Planned Parenthood with Cecile Richards

26 mins; June 27, 2017

Debbie Dingell on the struggle to find a place in her own party

24 mins; June 20, 2017

Valerie Jarrett on why she's still optimistic about the future

27 mins; June 13, 2017

The real reason people say 'I'm not racist, but'

32 mins; June 06, 2017

Actor Jesse Williams on race and cultural appropriation: 'Everybody's gonna copy you anyway'

33 mins; May 30, 2017

"The monuments were murder": New Orleans mayor defends focus on removing confederate monuments

25 mins; May 23, 2017

Senator Christopher Coons on why he prays for President Trump

17 mins; May 16, 2017

Maxine Waters: Jeff Sessions believes “it’s his job to keep minorities in their place”

31 mins; May 09, 2017

Richard Branson on Trump’s coal plans: ‘I can’t think of anything more stupid’

34 mins; May 02, 2017

Author Eric Liu: The power of decentralized resistance

27 mins; April 25, 2017

It’s not just Trump: With Brexit and France votes, Russia is cultivating the global right

26 mins; April 18, 2017

Khalil Gibran Muhammad on how fear of Trump could become as dangerous as Trump himself

28 mins; April 11, 2017

Congresswoman Karen Bass on why she feels like a political therapist

28 mins; April 04, 2017

Does Estonia understand democracy better than any of us?

14 mins; March 28, 2017

Joe Manchin on why he's still a Democrat

27 mins; March 21, 2017

Tony Blinken: 'This administration has turned our traditional openness into weakness'

34 mins; March 14, 2017

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union

29 mins; March 07, 2017

Professor Daina Ramey Berry

26 mins; February 28, 2017

Keith Ellison: The Democratic Party isn't only for Democrats

25 mins; February 21, 2017

Tom Perez on why the Democratic party needs a dramatic culture shift

22 mins; February 14, 2017

Laurence Tribe on why the judiciary is "our last best hope"

28 mins; February 07, 2017

Lena Epstein: "I am a Jewish, millennial female, who is supporting Trump."

32 mins; January 31, 2017

Arthur Brooks explains how dignity links Trump and Obama

26 mins; January 24, 2017

A Donald Trump survival guide -- from the mouths of Obama officials

12 mins; January 17, 2017

April Ryan on racial invisibility

24 mins; January 10, 2017

When cabinet members need to reach the president, this is the man they talk to first

28 mins; January 03, 2017

Former Obama official on the Trump cabinet picks that are actually good hires

26 mins; December 26, 2016

How Valerie Jarrett became Obama's most trusted adviser, and outlasted all her predecessors

34 mins; December 19, 2016

A call to arms from Attorney General Loretta Lynch

24 mins; December 13, 2016

Ambassador Susan Rice on the challenges of national security

21 mins; December 05, 2016

Here's how to preserve the Kennedy ideal in Trump's America, from a Kennedy

29 mins; November 29, 2016

Michael Steele, Part 2: What Republicans need to do about all "the KKK stuff"

21 mins; November 22, 2016

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