Biden-era racial justice conflicts echo through Washington Post
A new book by a Washington Post opinion editor is spilling a years-old fight back out into the open, privately frustrating some colleagues and putting the paper in an awkward position.
Last week, Washington Post opinion editor Jonathan Capehart published a book detailing his decision to step down from the paper’s editorial board in 2023. He attributed the move to a disagreement he had with another editor in the section, Karen Tumulty, over a piece by the editorial board saying that then-President Joe Biden’s decision to call Georgia’s voting laws “Jim Crow 2.0” was “hyperbolic.”
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