Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Lion. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Public Education
Light is now being shed on dark money behind anti-Israel protests – funding that may break the law, Hawley argues

Liberal dark-money groups funding the anti-Israel protests may be violating the law, and are “defrauding the American people and putting Jewish students and faculty at risk,” argues Missouri Sen. Josh… Read More

May 8, 2024
Culture
‘Coddled’ college students falling prey to ‘cultural Marxism’ in campuses’ takeover by anti-Jewish mobs, Missouri senators Hawley, Schmitt argue

Universities across America have “totally failed this country” in creating a climate of “cultural Marxism” resulting in the anti-Israel mobs on campuses, say Missouri Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt. Read More

May 3, 2024
Culture
‘Insult to Americans’: Senate majority ‘nuked’ Constitution’s impeachment process in holding no trial for Mayorkas, Schmitt argues

Democrats “diminished the institution of the Senate today and set ablaze the Constitution,” Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said in a statement Wednesday after the chamber’s majority summarily dismissed impeachment charges… Read More

April 18, 2024
Public Education
21 F-bombs: New audio reveals extent of hostility, profanity, in St. Joseph, Missouri school board member’s attacks on colleagues

(The Heartlander) – New audio for the first time exposes the naked ferocity of a profanity-laced verbal assault by a St. Joseph, Missouri school board member on a colleague, for… Read More

April 17, 2024
Courts
Brazilian judge’s censorship orders aimed at Elon Musk a ‘wake-up call’ for similar free speech fight in U.S., Hawley argues

As Elon Musk fights a lonely battle against government censorship in Brazil, there’s little the U.S. Congress can do – except take note of the parallel dangers to free speech… Read More

April 15, 2024