Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of "The Hunting of the President" (St. Martin's Press, 2000). You can e-mail Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.

Gene Lyons's Salon stories

Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 14:11 EST

Obama gets real in Afghanistan

For all the ambiguity of his new policy, he is admitting that U.S. power has limits and priorities
Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 14:03 EST

Find God, get out of jail, slaughter again

Why did Mike Huckabee pardon child rapist Maurice Clemmons? Because God told him to
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 14:05 EST

Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties

The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 13:19 EST

The war industry's drums are beating

The pressure is on President Obama to act quickly in Afghanistan. But why?
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 13:12 EST

What were the Republicans smoking?

After the disastrous Bush presidency the GOP had the option to go crazy or rethink. Guess which one they chose
Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 12:05 EST

The Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough

Dick Cheney, David Brooks and others urge the president to man up. Why is foreign policy always about machismo?
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009 17:27 EDT

Don't be surprised the media elite sided with Fox

Washington reporters know that Democrats complain, but Republicans get even
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 17:22 EDT

Why are we still in Afghanistan?

The country poses no threat to the U.S., but the war costs lives, drains the treasury and makes enemies
Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 05:16 EDT

Fox News isn't even pretending anymore

Want proof that journalism has devolved into entertainment? Watch "the communications arm of the Republican Party"
Thursday, Oct 8, 2009 00:06 EDT

There's a special place in hell for Roman Polanski

Adultery, even that of celebs like Letterman and Edwards, is a commonplace. But sex with underage girls is a crime
Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 00:06 EDT

Is Obama man or mouse?

Asks the Beltway punditocracy, which treats foreign policy like a theater of machismo
Thursday, Sep 24, 2009 03:24 EDT

The public knows the GOP is fibbing

Only Republicans really buy the anti-healthcare reform lies. So why are some Dems settling for such an awful bill?
Thursday, Sep 17, 2009 03:17 EDT

Obama gets the Clinton treatment

Anybody shocked by nasty GOP attacks on Obama must have forgotten what happened to the last Democratic president
Thursday, Sep 10, 2009 03:15 EDT

Is the GOP a cult?

Even some Republicans said their party had gone overboard in criticizing Obama for giving a speech to schoolkids
Thursday, Sep 3, 2009 03:15 EDT

A cake knife is useless in a gunfight

President Obama has only himself to blame for the healthcare reform quagmire
Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 03:33 EDT

The media can't handle the truth

Media sheep facing truth-hungry Internet wolves
Thursday, Aug 20, 2009 03:35 EDT

You won't win the healthcare debate by calling people stupid racists

Elite right-wing foes of healthcare reform are telling lies. The folks listening to them are mostly just scared
Thursday, Aug 13, 2009 03:13 EDT

Lunacy goes mainstream

Conservatives may be acting crazy, but by yelling louder than anyone else, they're making sure they are heard
Thursday, Aug 6, 2009 03:14 EDT

The Gates-Crowley public sitcom

While Americans screamed insults at one another, Obama lost two weeks in the effort to pass healthcare reform
Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 03:20 EDT

Black men, white cops and media mind readers

There's one person to blame for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 03:21 EDT

We won't see Cronkite's like again

The journalistic standards that Walter Cronkite and his contemporaries established have nearly disappeared
Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 03:15 EDT

Sarah Palin should just go home

The Alaska governor embodies America's obsession with made-up facts, self-pity and celebrity
Thursday, Jul 9, 2009 03:16 EDT

Media elite vs. blogger peasants

The White House allowed a mere commoner among the Beltway peerage -- how indecorous!
Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 03:15 EDT

Sex scandals are bipartisan

But it's Republicans who are prone to preaching about other people's intimate lives
Thursday, Jun 25, 2009 03:10 EDT

Iran's in turmoil. Good thing McCain's not president

Instead of belligerence, President Obama offers carefully chosen words to Iranians and quotes Martin Luther King

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