John Stoehr

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

What we’re talking about when we talk about democracy isn’t just voting. It’s equality

June 2, 2021 /

Without that moral principle, a democracy can’t be free, fair or full.

No, it’s not shocking that QAnon believers long for a military coup. For them, this is the End Times

June 1, 2021 /

There are millions of Americans for whom hate is their faith.

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 / Comments Off on The Republicans Party’s unrelenting onslaught of bullshit is forcing Republicans to leave the party

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.