The trouble with a mail-order dog
I'm a dog lover but would I buy one over the Internet? Maybe
Friday, Oct 21, 2011 12:00 AM UTC 31News Noble Beasts
Gene Lyons
News Noble Beasts
Bogus centrists peddle snobbery
How sentimental bipartisanship blinds self-aggrandizing pundits to political reality
Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 6:32 PM UTC 28Politics
Mr. Insensitivity meets the academy
My over-the-top lampoon got an over-the-top response
Thursday, Oct 6, 2011 12:00 AM UTC 59Politics Melissa Harris-Perry
Obama's bridge too far
When the president gets tough, the tough start whining
Thursday, Sep 29, 2011 12:01 AM UTC 46Politics Barack Obama, 2012 Elections
The incredible vanishing Michele Bachmann
Her demise following her HPV blunder shows how consent gets manufactured on the pseudo-populist Republican right
Thursday, Sep 22, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 49Politics Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Rick Perry plays up a bogus “Texanism”
The anti-government style dresses up the state's tradition of crony capitalism
Thursday, Sep 15, 2011 12:31 AM UTC 58Politics Rick Perry, 2012 Elections, Texas
The perils of Obama’s lazy narrative
Why is this brilliant orator unable to tell the simple story of how we landed in this economic mess?
Thursday, Sep 8, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 86Politics 2012 Elections
Obama’s dopey rope-a-dope strategy
The "adult in the room" takes a beating and just keeps sinking
Thursday, Sep 1, 2011 12:01 AM UTC 63Politics Barack Obama, Unemployment
The problem is Texanism — not Texans
Talking up secession while taking more than $6 billion in stimulus cash from Obama? Pure Texanism in action
Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 90Politics Texas, Rick Perry, War Room
The bully the GOP has been waiting for
The cowboy archetype runs so deep in American culture that even George W. Bush couldn't ruin it
Thursday, Aug 18, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 79Politics Rick Perry, War Room
I wish politics was baseball
Cable news channels hype Washington melodrama to boost ratings. And if there are no real crises, they invent them
Thursday, Aug 11, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 32Politics Sports, War Room
The true cost of George W. Bush’s magical thinking
The Wall Street meltdown happened at the perfect moment for Republicans to blame the fallout on Obama
Thursday, Aug 4, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 66Politics George W. Bush, War Room
Let’s just call them the “Deadbeat Party”
GOP cultists occupy a metaphysical netherworld where basic arithmetic is scorned as an elitist tool
Thursday, Jul 28, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 109Politics Debt ceiling, War Room
A party divorced from sanity
The great debt ceiling showdown would be a non-event if it weren't for something called the Tea Party
Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 12:31 AM UTC 106Politics Debt ceiling, War Room
Finally, Rupert Murdoch gets his due
Don't be misled by the romantic aspects of this British scandal -- it is a moral tragedy
Thursday, Jul 14, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 32Politics Rupert Murdoch, War Room
The GOP turns its back on Reagan
In their hysterical debt ceiling posturing, Republicans ignore a warning from their patron saint
Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 71Politics Debt ceiling, War Room
The mindless hysteria of right-wing sheep
Hey, Dittoheads: You're being played for suckers!
Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 161Politics Rush Limbaugh, War Room
When the GOP doubled down on crazy
The end of the Bush presidency could have prompted some serious self-examination on the right. But it didn't
Thursday, Jun 23, 2011 12:32 AM UTC 51Politics Republican Party, War Room
Anthony Weiner’s willing partners
When a male politician acts like a rooster, we tend to hear about the moral superiority of women
Thursday, Jun 16, 2011 1:01 AM UTC 36Politics Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.
How to sabotage a recovery
The GOP desperately wants Obama to repeat FDR's notorious mistake of 1937
Thursday, Jun 9, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 85Politics Great Recession, War Room
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Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of "The Hunting of the President" (St. Martin's Press, 2000). You can e-mail Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.
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