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Trump wishes us all a happy thermonuclear new year

Jan 1, 2017 1:00 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 pro-wrestling spectacle, the Twitter-addicted president-elect and his ratings-hungry enablers at CNN, Fox News, etc. appear determined to turn the United States government into an endless reality TV program. The hallmark of reality TV, of course, being sheer unreality. Absent terrorist attacks and weather-related catastrophes, however, political melodrama is the best known way to keep people watching what we quaintly call "news."
Trump imitates Putin, but the U.S. isn't Russia

Dec 27, 2016 5:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: If Vladimir Putin cared about American public opinion, he'd encourage Donald Trump to make at least a symbolic gesture to prove he's not the Russian strongman's vassal.
Trump imitates Putin, but the U.S. isn't Russia

By Gene Lyons
Dec 25, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: If Vladimir Putin cared about American public opinion, he'd encourage Donald Trump to make at least a symbolic gesture to prove he's not the Russian strongman's vassal.
Finally, a debate about identity politics

By Gene Lyons
Dec 9, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: 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 the left, "political correctness" by the right. And it's about time, I say.
Voters decide they would rather watch Trump on TV

Nov 23, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: My most recent one-to-one conversation with Hillary Clinton took place in October 1991, and I've been laughing at myself ever since.
Time to move on from the Trump reality election show

By Gene Lyons
Oct 28, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: Practically speaking, it doesn't really matter if Donald Trump accepts the results of the November election.
Will Donald last all the way to the election?

Aug 10, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist 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.
Universities must do more to prevent sexual assault

By Gene Lyons
Jul 26, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: 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.
Another so-called scandal fails to hinder Hillary

By Gene Lyons
Jul 13, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: 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 President Hillary Rodham Clinton."
The great college coddling

Jun 17, 2016 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: Judging by the popular press, it appears that many of those toddlers, coddled and cosseted all their lives, have now enrolled in college, where confusion reigns.

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