This is politics in plain English.
I started the Editorial Board in 2018 to give normal people a place to read about American politics.
I can be blunt. But I’m relentlessly honest.
I don’t think much matters without loyalty to the truth.
—John Stoehr
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They are not peaceful protesters. They are death-threat squads. The US attorney general is absolutely right. He must act
Don’t let the Republicans con you.
The GOP told the biggest business lobby it’s time to choose: business or politics
The US Chamber of Commerce chose politics.
The state of our bail system is so corrupt you don’t need to be convicted to lose your rights — or face a death sentence
How can we claim people are innocent until proven guilty?
The Republican campaign to rifle through the people’s ballots to sustain the Big Lie is a frontal assault on democracy
We cannot afford to let it spread any further.
In fight over his agenda, Biden is leaning on the right people. The liberals are now the center. The moderates have to catch up
Looking at politics through the lens of regime change.
Our addiction to polling, myth of ‘liberal bias,’ Proud Boys as public enemy, Biden’s Great Society, plus John Stoehr’s week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board.
Senate candidate JD Vance is describing how the Republicans have changed. Are we listening?
Set aside the old ways of thinking.
Joe Biden’s plan will transform America the way the Great Society did. Here’s 3 ways journalists fail to tell the story
As they did with President Lyndon Johnson’s agenda, the press corps should inform the electorate about the existential battle at hand.
Tired of conservatives accusing college professors of pushing their ‘liberal bias’? This is the slapback you’ve been waiting for
It is a fundamental misunderstanding of research and teaching.