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Gene Lyons

Contributor
Trump expects the MAGA faithful to turn out in thousands to intimidate the Manhattan district attorney out of indicting him for funneling hush money to noted porn actress Stormy Daniels. Not going to happen.
Brandon Miller has no business playing in the NCAA college basketball tournament. And it shouldn’t be up to coach Nate Oats to make the decision.
According to no less an authority than The New Yorker, that most bookish of large-circulation magazines, the academic study of imaginative literature is in the process of vanishing from American college campuses.
If Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home state did decide to divorce the USA, what would it do with the people whose political beliefs they don’t agree with?
The COVID pandemic was rough on everybody. Fear and sorrow were ubiquitous, and not just among high school girls.
In Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders’ rebuttal to Biden’s speech, she came off as a self-intoxicated fanatic, like a second-string preacher at the kind of suburban fundamentalist church that has auditorium seating and multiple video screens.
Memphis, beleaguered by soaring homicide rates, drastically lowered recruiting standards for new officers. Their lack of experience was shocking to veterans.
Now we have the GOP House’s so-called “weaponization” committee, which will put on a great show of trying to prove conspiracies about the mythical “Deep State.”
It’s clear that Ron DeSantis thinks it’s legitimate to use government power to muzzle people he disagrees with.