Gene Lyons
Contributor
Reading about West Virginia University’s plan to solve a budgetary shortfall by eliminating the study of foreign languages, it occurred to me the entire purpose of a college education has been turned inside out since my undergraduate days.
Everybody who disagrees with her educational reforms, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims, is a member of “the radical woke left mob” that she’s protecting schoolchildren from.
Here’s my advice for President Joe Biden: The White House is no place for a German shepherd.
Not a single vote has been cast — although you’d never know it from the daily media racehorse coverage — and there are any number of things that are quite likely to happen that would prevent a Trump-Biden rematch.
Aldean himself comes from Macon, Georgia, a city with among the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. His lyrics are banal, and unlike most good country music, they don’t tell a story.
It’s another iteration of white-bread America’s fear and hostility toward anything more unsettling than “Leave It to Beaver.”
In his new book on Timothy McVeigh and right-wing extremism, Toobin writes that after Trump became president, “the wolf pack had a new leader.”
GOP senators and others are breathing smoke and fire about bombing Mexico to stop the flow of drugs to America. Somebody tell me where and when a nation has bombed its way out of a drug addiction crisis.