The Latest Breaking News from Gene Lyons

In Republican hands, a congressional hearing on antisemitism is anything but a search for understanding.

There’s plenty going on in the world to worry about, but I can’t agree that it’s rendered all Americans cynical and negative.

There are too many other diversions for baseball to reclaim the hold it once had over the public imagination, Gene Lyons writes. But Major League Baseball’s rules changes are a huge success.

In one state after another, sex-obsessed authoritarians in the party are proposing laws regulating Americans’ private lives. Basically, they’ve lost their minds, Gene Lyons writes.

When has the nation not been riven by disinformation?

Waiting, while doing nothing, is a lost opportunity in the fight for cleaner air.

Mutual suspicion between city and country is literally one of the oldest stories in the world.

Every day is Dog Day around our house. The pets can serve as a social emollient like no other.

Politically speaking, the internet is pretty much a disaster. One writer suspects that unhinged, unregulated social media are partly responsible for a retreat from democratic values — more tribalism, more violent rhetoric and less respect for law — pretty much around the world.