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
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
Opinion
Could crackdown on free speech in Brazil be U.S.’s future? Is Elon Musk our Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’?

Brazil is “on the brink” of shutting down free speech online – but may only be further down the same path President Biden is blazing in the U.S. Leading free… Read More

April 9, 2024
Culture
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s appearance at KU Wednesday to test campus security, students’ beliefs

Traditional American values of free speech, free markets and limited government are a surprisingly tough sell today – as evidenced by the need for, and the experience of, Turning Point… Read More

April 3, 2024
Courts
Here’s the key to preserving free speech, according to the man who filed the ‘most important’ such case in US history

The Missouri-launched “most important free speech case in the history of our country” was just argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. But even with a victory in the… Read More

March 26, 2024