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.

Courts
Judge may sanction St. Louis’ lawyers for ‘slipshod’ lawsuit vs. Missouri that ‘first-year law student’ wouldn’t have filed

A federal judge may discipline attorneys for St. Louis after they filed a lawsuit against the state that he said “a first-year law student” would know not to file. Outgoing… Read More

April 24, 2025
Opinion
Blushing Bolsheviks! Not even fathers of Soviet communism did what Colorado may do to parents by sanctifying transgenderism

First they came for the teachers. Then they came for the counselors. Now they’re coming for everyone – most notably parents. Already, teachers across the country have been coerced into using… Read More

April 22, 2025
Government
Kansas lawmakers protect citizens from COVID-style shutdowns, religious discrimination in adoption, foster care

Kansas lawmakers Thursday overrode the governor’s veto of a bill restricting COVID-style shutdowns and another bill protecting people of faith in fostering and adopting children. The Substitute for Senate… Read More

April 10, 2025
Government
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Bombshell’ testimony on Meta’s collusion with China is cause for breaking company up, Hawley says

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sold out America to the Chinese communist government and should be taken to court and have his company, now called Meta, broken up. That’s the considered… Read More

April 10, 2025
Politics
New studies show Democrats ominously open to political assassination, liberals less empathetic than conservatives

Two alarming new studies show the left is not only considerably less empathetic to people on the right than vice versa, but also frighteningly open to political assassination. “Political violence… Read More

April 9, 2025