John Stoehr
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.
As in the past, they continue to accept the GOP’s bad faith.
If there are few consequences for lying, there are few for rape.
Iran bloodied his nose. Who’s next to punch the bully?
Chuck Todd laundered the GOP’s intellectual dishonesty.
They want to destroy it. Liberals are helping.
Suffering is central to fascist politics. Indeed, “sadism” is the point.
It’s an argument you hear so often it seems true.
The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer is always a must-read. Last week, he wrote a piece in keeping with key themes in the Editorial Board. Black Americans did not abandon liberal democracy because of slavery, Jim Crow, and the systematic destruction of whatever wealth they managed to accumulate; instead they took up arms in two world wars…
For his base, the economy may matter less than racism.
Leave it to Stephen Carter to ask instructive questions. Still, I wonder whether this might not be a good moment to move from familiar and comfortable Trump-bashing to ask a larger question: Might it not be time we demanded that our political candidates and their supporters refuse dirt from any source, foreign or domestic? Might we not consider…