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, November 09, 2019 Our Point Remains: PBS Should Broadcast Impeachment Hearings in Primetime Okay, let’s be clear. The ad we took in this past Friday’s edition of The New York Times and an accompanying essay asked that PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, do the right thing for the American people, the people PBS was created to serve. Abandon your usual main schedule when the House... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 08, 2019 A Message to PBS: Televise the Trump Impeachment Hearings for All to See UPDATE: After it was reported Friday afternoon that PBS, in addition to its live coverage, will air upcoming Trump impeachment hearings across its digital platforms as well as re-airing them at prime time on its digital channel WORLD, carried by 157 public television stations (covering 64.4% of US... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 31, 2019 United Kingdom—Brexit or No Brexit—Our Donald Trumps Your Boris Sorry, Britain, we win. And believe me, I’m sorrier about that than I can say. Because from where I sit, our criminal president, Cheeto Benito Trump, has got your dissembling, cheating Boris Johnson beat by a corrupt mile. Or corrupt kilometer, depending on the country. Yes, your Brexit crisis is... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Our Mad Dog President—and His Bible-Thumping Kennel Pals “I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case… to harass a peaceful man.” You could be excused for thinking that Donald Trump spoke these words of self-pity. In fact, they’re from Robert de Niro,... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 30, 2019 Healthcare Reformer Wendell Potter: The For-Profit 'System Is Unraveling' With the word “whistleblower” spinning through news cycle after news cycle these last few days, every headline about Trump, Giuliani and Ukraine is a powerful reminder that the whistleblower is a proud tradition in the United States, one that merits our support and protection. Throughout our... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 14, 2019 Democratic Debate's Top Ten in Texas Well, as CNN’s Jake Tapper told Stephen Colbert Thursday night after the Democratic presidential debate, one thing’s for certain: Beto O’Rourke isn’t leaving the race to run for the US Senate from Texas. Not after what he said about guns. “Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” he... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 09, 2019 Is Labor Coming Back to Life? This past Saturday was the annual Labor Day Parade in New York City. They don’t have it on the actual holiday anymore – too many people are more interested in a long, late summer weekend in the mountains or at the beach. And yet the parade itself is a grand celebration of unions, even if in recent... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 03, 2019 Please Shut Up, Mr. President, and Read Some Books Amidst a roiling hurricane and another fusillade of Texas gunshots, like many, I was struck by a statement in the new memoir, Call Sign Chaos , written by former Trump Defense Secretary James Mattis with former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West. Both men began their careers of public... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 26, 2019 Trump’s Entire Worldview Is a Nut Job Conspiracy Theory Once upon a time, when I first was writing for newspapers and magazines, because I was the junior guy in the rotation, one of my many beats was the conspiracy theorists—in those days, mostly small, cult-like groups with some truly bizarre ideas. One Thanksgiving weekend, I was assigned to cover a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 15, 2019 Fifty Years After Woodstock, We Are Caught in the Devil’s Bargain The 16 th century theologian John Calvin remarked that if you went to every cathedral in Europe and took away all the pieces of the true cross of Christ they claimed to possess, you'd have enough wood to fill a ship. Similarly, if you took all the people who claim they were at Woodstock fifty years... Read more |