Gene Lyon
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'Hillbilly Elegy' raises provocative questionsJan 13, 2017 12:00 am - "Well, I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison / And I went to pick her up in the rain / But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck / She got runned ...
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Trump wishes us all a happy thermonuclear new yearJan 01, 2017 12:00 am - Now that the presidential election is over, will it ever really end? Not if Donald J. Trump and the cable news networks get their way. Having made the election into a pr...
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Finally, a debate about identity politicsDec 09, 2016 12:00 am - Amid the climate of disbelief and fear among Democrats following Donald Trump's election, a fascinating debate has broken out about what's called "identity politics" on ...
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Voters decide they would rather watch Trump on TVNov 23, 2016 12:00 am - By Gene Lyons "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken My most recent one-to-one convers...
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Time to move on from the Trump reality election showOct 28, 2016 1:00 am - Practically speaking, it doesn't really matter if Donald Trump accepts the results of the November election. No concession speech - can anybody imagine the big blowhard ...
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Will Donald last all the way to the election?Aug 10, 2016 1:00 am - By Gene Lyons The question isn't so much if Donald Trump can win the election as whether or not he'll still be the GOP candidate come November. Nobody can predict what m...
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Universities must do more to prevent sexual assaultJul 26, 2016 1:00 am - Here we go again. At the rate these campus sexual abuse sagas are making news, it's reasonable to ask what college administrators can possibly be thinking about. Here's ...
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Another so-called scandal fails to hinder HillaryJul 13, 2016 1:00 am - You read it here first: "Fearless prediction," this column began on April 6, "No legalistic deus ex machina will descend to save the nation from the dread specter of Pre...
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The great college coddlingJun 17, 2016 1:00 am - By Gene Lyons It's been 20 years since I started hearing alarming tales from a friend who supervised a day care for hospital employees' children. She said that for the f...
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Clinton should have exposed Sanders when she had the chanceJun 08, 2016 1:00 am - Here's my basic problem with Bernie Sanders. To put it bluntly, once a Trotskyite, always a fool. Personal experience of '60s-style left-wing posturing left me allergic ...