Stephen J. Lyons

I miss that time of presidential reverence, a time that younger Americans cannot recall in this campaign cycle of swear words and blatant lies.

What can the Harris-Walz campaign do with a thousand bucks from me? Buy a day’s worth of Starbucks for the campaign staff? Half a pantsuit?

All the wars the United States has been involved with since I’ve been alive have been a waste of lives on all sides.

Can we rationally discuss whether Israel’s response to the Hamas attack was proportional?

On my third morning in southern Portugal last month, I woke to the breaking news that the country's prime minister, António Costa, had resigned over rumors of corruption by his...

On the occasion of my mother-in-law's 100th birthday, I asked for her thoughts as she contemplated a second century. "Keep your mind open and your mouth shut!" she quickly replied....

Ah, those glory days of high school, circa 1973. Proms and pimples. Hormones and hickeys. Jocks and jerks. Who would not want to celebrate those golden times ... a half-century...

In 2008, more than 100 nations signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a treaty that "prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions." The United States did not...

It's open mic night at the Hitching Post bar in rural southern Ohio, and the joint fills with factory workers, cubicle toilers and a biker who looks the part, right...

I am old enough to remember the late President George H.W. Bush's promise at the Republican National Convention in 1988 of "Read my lips: no new taxes," a pledge that...