John Stoehr

John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. He writes the daily edition. Find him @johnastoehr.

Though out of the race, Kennedy will never run out of easy marks

August 23, 2024 /

There will always be Americans who don’t take democracy seriously.

Democrats are the freedom party

August 22, 2024 /

Walz’s speech was a dramatic portrayal of the recentering of America.

Biden is insulating Harris against Trump’s racist demagoguery

August 21, 2024 /

By convincing white working-class voters that she’s the real populist.

Trump is losing his audience

August 20, 2024 /

Gibberish is boring.

Trump’s trash-talk isn’t alienating swing voters. His gibberish is

August 15, 2024 /

Don’t give him too much credit.

New joy among Democrats comes from flexing their own power

August 14, 2024 /

But first came the end of the crazy-making.

Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps

August 13, 2024 /

She learned from Biden’s fatal error.

The more he tries to dominate, the more Trump ‘decomposes’

August 8, 2024 /

He can’t change a lifetime of habits. 

The Harris campaign figures out how to wound Trump’s ego

August 7, 2024 /

His greatest asset has been his greatest liability.

Trump can’t adjust, won’t adjust, to the reality of Kamala Harris

August 6, 2024 /

Trump’s smear job against Joe Biden climaxed prematurely, and now that the vice president has taken over, he doesn’t know what to do.