John Stoehr

John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. Find him @editorialboard.bsky.social .

‘Government tyranny’ is finally here, but this time it’s being met with crickets from the Republicans

July 17, 2020 /

I have been listening to “conservatives” blast government tyranny since I was an 8-year-old boy watching the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.” Every time liberals want to use government to address a problem, from enforcing civil rights laws, to protecting the environment to lifting the burden of expensive health insurance, “conservatives” have found a…

Pause the Trump-is-losing narrative

July 16, 2020 /

The point of this column is being wrong.

An apology

July 15, 2020 /

I used the word “goombah” to describe Roger Stone in Monday’s and Tuesday’s editions of the Editorial Board. I should not have done that. That’s an offensive word. I believe I have hurt some readers. I apologize without qualification for using that word. I have struck the word out of those pieces. And I pledge…

The intellectual fraud of Bari Weiss

July 15, 2020 /

She’s part of a larger project to warp American politics.

A President Biden can start restoring America by investigating the current president’s crimes

July 14, 2020 /

Why he should appoint a new special counsel.

By commuting Stone’s sentence, Trump continues a conspiracy that never ended

July 13, 2020 /

The president is covering up the cover up of a crime.

Grover Norquist takes a handout

July 10, 2020 /

This should be the end of anti-government politics.

Vindman got canceled and no one noticed

July 9, 2020 /

Where are the champions of free speech?

Autocracy’s hidden enablers

July 8, 2020 /

They think they’re standing against it, but they’re helping it.

The GOP’s baked-in ‘race problem’

July 7, 2020 /

The party of the very, very rich can’t win without stoking hatreds.