John Stoehr

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

Are cops being sincere?

June 1, 2020 /

In the Monday edition of the Editorial Board, I noted the different ways police departments are handling public outrage, some of it violent, over the murder of George Floyd by a white cop in Minneapolis. Some are flying the Thin Blue Line flag, a symbol of American fascism, while others, including here in New Haven,…

The Thin Blue Line Is Cracking. Good

June 1, 2020 /

Cops demonstrate two ways to engage Americans struggling for freedom.

Naming America’s Political Perverts

May 29, 2020 /

Another aspect of barbarism in the age of Donald Trump.

Trump Is Turning America into China

May 28, 2020 /

China’s dictator models the glories of the corporatist state.

Donald Trump and the Age of Barbarism

May 27, 2020 /

We can’t shame the GOP, but we can name their behavior.

Land of the Weak, Home of the Depraved

May 26, 2020 /

The Memorial Day Weekend showed us who we are.

Here’s what you missed!

May 22, 2020 /

Subscribers to the Editorial Board got to read today’s edition about why our current crisis of morality and democratic faith is best illustrated by a column in the Washington Post in which grown men and women pity themselves for having to do dishes. Citizens, or members of a political community, do what needs to be done…

Blood’s Got Nothing to Do with It

May 22, 2020 /

Don’t be like the rich.

Don’t miss another edition!

May 21, 2020 /

Only subscribers got to read today’s column about why it takes more than political pressure to turn your back on your country. It takes an overwhelming lust for power. Ron Johnson seems ready to go where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn’t go, picking up where Donald Trump left off in attempting to betray the US…

No, GOP Senators Are Not Cowed

May 21, 2020 /

They are willingly deepening the roots of authoritarianism.