In Jonathan Capehart’s forthcoming memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home, the author explains why he left the editorial board of the Washington Post in 2023. “I decided to wait to tell this story until now,” Capehart writes. “I needed time and emotional distance to process what I went through.”

Sounds pretty bad. Yet as one delves into the details of why Capehart walked, it’s Capehart himself who looks pretty bad. Imperious, while at the same time hyper-sensitive; self-righteous while morally confused; resentful while equally obtuse; ideologically brainwashed and thus incapable of independent thought, Jonathan Capehart is everything wrong with journalism in 2025. No wonder Jeff Bezos is scrambling to sweep out the stables at The Washington Post.

To simplify, Jonathan Capehart left the editorial board of The Washington Post because the Post’s board called BS on Joe Biden’s fearmongering about laws defending election integrity: specifically, Georgia’s SB 202—a.k.a. the “Election Integrity Act of 2021.” It was signed into law following the 2020 presidential election. SB 202 placed new restrictions on early and absentee voting, imposed stricter ID verification requirements, curbed the chaotic mail-in ballot system, and shortened the window of time during which voters could request absentee ballots be sent to them.