John Stoehr

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

The Senate GOP is ready to block a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection. Is it time for filibuster reform?

May 27, 2021 /

Timing is everything.

If you’re willing to say anything for power, that’s fascism—even, or especially, if you do not mean it

May 26, 2021 /

GOP elites are not just playing along.

The Republicans Party’s unrelenting onslaught of bullshit is forcing Republicans to leave the party

May 25, 2021 /

Indifference to truth in pursuit of power, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

Carl Schmitt, leading exponent of Nazi political thought, would feel at home in today’s GOP

May 25, 2021 /

Why does “fascism” still get side-eye from mainstream commentators?

Liz Cheney is less bad than the GOP fascists but as long as she tolerates nonstop lying, she’s still bad

May 24, 2021 /

The untenable paradox on (real) conservatives.

Nearly everyone missed Chuck Schumer implying this week that the filibuster’s death is coming

May 21, 2021 /

The conventional wisdom is coming around to the Democrats’ side.

How can the Republicans avoid relitigating the 2020 election when their future depends on relitigating it?

May 20, 2021 /

An untenable paradox.

There are two ways of reading Joe Manchin’s new voting-rights proposal. That’s probably by design

May 19, 2021 /

I still don’t think we have a Joe Manchin problem.

There’s just one reason to oppose a bipartisan commission to investigate the 1/6 insurgency

May 18, 2021 /

Are the House Republicans afraid of what it will find?

Moral people don’t draw attention to their virtue, but amoral people spend a lot of time sending signals

May 17, 2021 /

You don’t need a reason to wear a mask, but there are plenty.