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 Friday, July 10, 2020 Trump's Bull Destroys the China Shop–And Our Role in the World Useful ways to pass the quarantine time: Since April, in response to the pandemic, I've been involved with a series of Zoom webinars examining a number of issues through the lens of COVID-19. So far, we've covered everything from mental health and addiction and recovery to the search for a vaccine... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 01, 2020 Covid-19 and the Masque of the Red States I’ve bored family and friends with this story for years. Now it’s your turn. A long time ago, I was living in a New York apartment across from a park which, along with its bocce and handball courts, featured a well-worn, dusty baseball field. One spring, the city decided to re-sod it. They brought... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 24, 2020 President Trump Ain't Just Dog Whistling Dixie More than a century ago, the American poet James Russell Lowell asked, “And what is so rare as a day in June?” How about a week in June like the one we just had, filled, as they used to say on an old TV show , “with the events that alter and illuminate our times?” Last week began with two Supreme... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 16, 2020 In the Face of Powerful Protests, Parts of Middle America Enter the Twilight Zone There’s a famous episode from the very first season of the legendary “Twilight Zone” TV series. Its title: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The tale unfolds in a small town. A mysterious blast of light and sound comes from overhead and suddenly the power goes off. At first the residents of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 11, 2020 What George Floyd’s Dying Breaths Tell Our Fractured Nation For writers like me, one of the soundest pieces of advice over the last week came from columnist and film historian Mark Harris, who tweeted on Saturday , “I am calling on all my white colleagues to join me in a 24-hour moratorium on personal essays about our feelings.” This prompted many to ask,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 02, 2020 No Justice, No Peace, No Leader at the Top As I write this from lower Manhattan, helicopters hover overhead as they have for the last several nights, media and police watching from above to see where peaceful protesters are marching and gathering, while looking for possible arson or other vandalism initiated by the few whose anger or... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 27, 2020 COVID-19 and the Unmasking of Donald Trump I keep fantasizing about a moment in Washington like the one at the end of The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy accidentally throws water on the Wicked Witch of the West. The witch melts and suddenly the evil spell she’s cast on all her creepy guardsmen and flying monkeys is broken. They snap out of it... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Never Have So Few Done So Much to Destroy America In this Age of COVID, there was a time long, long ago—about six weeks past!—when Donald Trump began referring to himself as “a wartime president." He isn’t saying it much anymore. Maybe because his naptime was being haunted by the derisive ghostly laughter of Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 12, 2020 Mission Imperative: Come November, Trump Must Go There must be one mission above all, one goal supreme: Vote this monster out of the White House. And along with him, tow to the nearest dump the clown car of malefactors who gave him license to cripple our republic. Donald Trump’s defeat and the defeat of those in Congress who have enabled him with... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 04, 2020 Fifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America There are certain events in the life of the nation we revisit whenever there’s a significant anniversary. The assassination of President Kennedy, 9/11, the moon landing, even Woodstock—these are iconic milestones we think are worthy of remembrance and reflection—especially because so many of us... Read more |