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This Saturday, November 1, because of the latest government shutdown, some 42 million Americans will lose their SNAP benefits. The Supplemental Nutrition…
Stephen J. Lyons
Stephen J. Lyons is the author of six books of reportage and essays, including Going Driftless, Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times. His essays and commentaries have appeared in The Sun, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Newsweek, High Country News, the Independent, South China Morning Post, the New York Daily News, the Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reason, Psychotherapy Networker, Salon, Audubon, USA Today, and many other magazines and newspapers.
July 31, 2025 “The president has always and will always proudly stand with our men and women in blue.” [Except for the…
Robo dogs. Tasers-equipped drone. Lie detectors. Smart walls. Iris scans. The imprecise, inhumane technology of AI algorithms. This is the arsenal that…
Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic…
I am trying to get my head around our new reality: a private citizen who happens to be the richest man in…
As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, prepares its Immigration and Customs Enforcement…