John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.
Sure, it’s obvious. Call it out anyway. Lives depend on it.
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision in June that took a shiv to democracy, I said liberals really truly need understand something: “The high court is no longer your friend. It ceased being your friend nearly two decades ago. It was just hard to see until lately. It’s time to take matters into…
Party elites never forgave her for doing the right thing.
I can’t stop thinking about the time Tucker Carlson spoke the truth about the Republican Party without meaning to. It was during the president’s trip to North Korea. The Fox News host was trying to rationalize Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un. No president has ever given that country’s murderous dynastic dictator so much prestige…
The Times’ Jamelle Bouie debunked the whole “we’re a republic, not a democracy thing.” For those unfamiliar with it, this is a tired trope that racists (for the most part) roll out to justify minority rule (think voter suppression). Bouie writes that while the founders were skeptical of direct democracy, they nevertheless aimed to create…
China issued new retaliatory tariffs this morning on American goods. The president then posted a retaliatory tweet in which he “ordered” US firms to stop doing business with China. That, as a result, spooked Wall Street into a nosedive. It’s rare when cause and effect are so clear in the market. Donald Trump can’t order…
Evil men don’t deserve silence.
His sadism, like that of other fascists, is rational.
It’s a monument to slavery’s end and the rise of a liberal democracy.
Reaction to 1619 Project reveals love of country built on sand.