John Stoehr

1 week ago | editorialboard.com | John Stoehr

Share this article The question that no one is asking, but that everyone is thinking, is whether the Democratic Party should run another female nominee. Right now, the question is in the background, but it comes out in the open now and then. You can see it in online debates over the presidential aspirations of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s great and all, people say, but can a woman win?

1 week ago | alternet.org | John Stoehr

This week saw the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. It seems to have gone by without fanfare. Why? I think it’s because whatever gains were made after his death, in the name of equity, inclusion and justice, have been rolled back by the regime. I think that’s because most Americans want it that way. As Alma Rutgers wrote in the New Haven Register: “Now, five years later, George Floyd is all but forgotten.

1 week ago | editorialboard.com | John Stoehr

Share this article This week saw the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. It seems to have gone by without fanfare. Why? I think it’s because whatever gains were made after his death, in the name of equity, inclusion and justice, have been rolled back by the regime. I think that’s because most Americans want it that way. As Alma Rutgers wrote in the New Haven Register: “Now, five years later, George Floyd is all but forgotten.

1 week ago | editorialboard.com | John Stoehr

Share this article Editor’s note: a version of this piece ran in the EB on May 30, 2023. –JSThere’s something that needs to be said on this Memorial Day. It’s about small towns and what they represent to white people in America. It’s about the choices that small towns make to remember “those who died for our freedom.” It’s about this representation of white America and how it influences national memory. It’s about remembering the past and how remembering it controls the future.

2 weeks ago | rawstory.com | John Stoehr

I’m going to make a confession in this introduction to my interview with Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of communication and journalism at Texas A&M. Here it is: I have lost so much trust in democracy that I don’t know how to rebuild trust in democracy. She says that “anyone who supports democracy should work to build trust between people, and between people and the government,” and I just don’t know. I mean, I used to have faith.