John Stoehr

Today, I want to bring your attention to a subtext beneath every discussion about “abnormal politics” in this year’s election. That subtext is nearly always about Donald Trump. This is understandable. He’s the only candidate in our lifetimes who has openly said he wants to be a dictator “on day one”...

Editor’s note: The following first appeared in Dorf on Law. As a reminder, click on the headline for a easy-reading experience. –JSListening to the oral argument in the Trump immunity case last week, I could not help but think how surreal the conservative justices were acting. It felt like they were...

I have been in a brass-tacks mood this week, so let's get right to it. Will all these college protests negatively affect “the youth vote”? Is the president, by sticking with his policies toward Israel, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, risking defeat to Donald Trump?

It doesn’t look it, but Donald Trump is weak. It doesn’t look it, because he keeps saying scary things. That gives the impression of strength. He’s weak, though. My evidence? Those scary things he keeps saying. No presidential candidate in his right mind would say out loud for everyone to hear that...

I trust the readers of the Editorial Board will correct me if I’m wrong when I say I don’t recall having paid any attention to Kristi Noem. The Republican governor of South Dakota pops into my field of vision now and then, recently as a leading candidate for Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick. Ot...

Hillary Clinton was on “Morning Joe” Thursday. Joe Scarborough asked the former secretary of state and former Democratic presidential nominee for help. He said that while we seem to talk about Donald Trump a lot, Americans still don't have an urgent sense of the unique dangers he poses to democracy. “Help us out with that if you will.”

The Times released a new poll this week showing that Donald Trump is ahead of Joe Biden in five crucial swing states, and that he’s leading because of monumental upheavals within the president’s coalition.The popular takeaway Monday was that Trump is a strong candidate, because of adverse reactions ...

All right. I'm sorry. I have to say that in advance. I'm going to write about the Times again . What it did is too important to overlook.

According to USA Today, the news didn’t seem all that strange. Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to debate each other, once in June (on CNN) and once in September (on ABC). The most unusual thing, if it can be considered unusual these days, was that the agreement came after “a rapid bac...

PQ Darrell Issa: “One of the questions is not what did he say but how did he say it,” he told a Fox host last month when asked to explain why the House Oversight Committee needed the audio. “Was he stumbling more? A transcript doesn't give you the pauses. It doesn't give you nonverbal stuttering ” (my italics).