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.

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
Politics
Newly elected Pennsylvania congressman saw his ‘defeat’ on a TV station a week before his victory

With social media platforms censoring and de-emphasizing conservatives under Biden, right-leaning Americans can be forgiven for being wary of the media. So, many conservatives in northeast Pennsylvania find it highly… Read More

April 8, 2025
Culture
Cherished priest shot dead in Kansas small town; suspect in custody, no known motive

A beloved Catholic priest was shot and killed Thursday in this northern Kansas Nemaha County town of some 2,100 residents. Father Arul Carasala, a native of India, was killed in… Read More

April 4, 2025