Michael Winship
Michael Winship is the Schumann Senior Writing Fellow for Common Dreams. Previously, he was the Emmy Award-winning senior writer for Moyers & Company and BillMoyers.com, a past senior writing fellow at the policy and advocacy group Demos, and former president of the Writers Guild of America East. Follow him on Twitter: @MichaelWinship
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Views Saturday, March 21, 2020 Who's in Charge Here? A number of years ago, I wrote a documentary about John Gardner, the remarkable public servant who served as President Lyndon Johnson's secretary of health, education and welfare. He later founded the citizen's group Common Cause and was, by the way, a liberal Republican, if you can remember a time... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 12, 2020 Trump's Brand Is Chaos Back in 1992, while running for re-election, President George H.W. Bush was speaking at a New Hampshire town hall and accidentally read aloud some stage directions handed to him by his staff: “Message: I care.” But Donald Trump, your message is that you don’t care, do you? All cognizant Americans,... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 24, 2020 The Workers Circle Fights Injustice with Activism—and Joy If you’re not Jewish or not involved with organized labor, there’s a good chance you may never have heard of the Workmen’s Circle—recently renamed the Workers Circle , a gender-neutral nod to the hardworking activism of its members, Jewish men and women, young and old. It’s worth getting to know... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 16, 2020 It's Happening Here... Sitting here next to my computer right now are two, small paperbound books. One of them is On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century , by Yale University historian Timothy Snyder. The other is the screenplay from the movie Jojo Rabbit , written and directed by Taika Waititi and based on... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 05, 2020 Donald Trump's State of the Mighty Me As Dear Leader wound up his State of the Union, and Nancy Pelosi tore its pages in quarters as she stood behind him, I had the same reaction that many colleagues out in the Twitter universe had. We all instantly recalled George W. Bush’s words at the end of Donald Trump’s inaugural address in 2017... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 03, 2020 At a Church and on Capitol Hill, The Battle for Democracy On Friday, I was in Washington, DC. No, not to witness the final throes of the Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump, but to be at the memorial service for a former colleague, newsman Jim Lehrer. Created with his friend and fellow journalist Robert MacNeil, what’s now the PBS NewsHour began... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 27, 2020 Thank You, Adam Schiff On October 16, 1939, Hollywood director Frank Capra premiered Mr. Smith Goes to Washington before an audience of US senators and House members, Supreme Court justices, journalists and assorted other DC dignitaries. It was an all-star event, sponsored by the National Press Club and held at... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 22, 2020 The Imperative of Pulling Together to Beat the Trump Who Would Be King Hey, Sanders, hey, Warren, hey, Biden and the rest of you. Listen, I know from party divisiveness. As a very (very!) young man, I worked on the campaign staff of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern. There now will be a slight pause as you imitate explosions and other sound effects... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 14, 2020 A Brutal Trump Makes Culture War on Iran—and Everyone Else There’s an old joke about how Richard Nixon was the kind of politician who’d cut down an endangered giant redwood, then climb on the stump and make a speech about conservation. Fast forward to 2020 and Donald Trump, who with every breath plunges Nixonian hypocrisy to heretofore unimagined depths: “... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 05, 2020 Drum Major Trump Marches Us Into the Folly of War I know nothing of war. Unfortunately, neither does Donald Trump and he’s the crazy man in charge. The fact that Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani , leader of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was a menace to Middle East stability and America’s presence there is without doubt... Read more |