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 Wednesday, April 28, 2021 An Ugly Picture as State-Level GOP Attempt to Strangle Dissent Nationwide As we passed the one-year mark of the pandemic lockdown, the media was flooded with assorted lookbacks, memorials for the dead and even quizzes designed to remind people of what the country and the world were like before the coronavirus descended. One suggested that you look at the photos stored in... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 14, 2021 The Loutish Lemmings of the GOP Joe Biden is thinking about the complexities of racial and social justice in America, vaccinating the population against COVID-19, combatting domestic terrorism, rebuilding the country’s infrastructure, bringing back jobs and climate change. Donald Trump is thinking about money and revenge—and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Environmental Author and Activist Bill McKibben Won't Stop Sounding the Alarm A few years ago, I was invited to become involved in something called the George M. Ewing Canandaigua Forum in my hometown, Canandaigua, up in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. The Forum’s named after the late George Ewing, for many years the editor and publisher of our local... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Forget about the Naysayers: Don’t Throw Away Your Shot I’m a sucker for an old song, maybe with a twist: Would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar – or would you rather get your dose of the COVID vaccine? If you’re familiar with that tune, “Swinging on a Star,” which back in the day won an Oscar for Best Original Song, you’re... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 04, 2021 Same Old, Same Old from the Mouth That Roared In his return to the public stage Sunday night, former guy Donald Trump announced that Joe Biden had just overseen “the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history.” Really? This may come as a shock to our ninth president, William Henry Harrison, who in 1841 contracted pneumonia... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 27, 2021 When Texas Froze Over, There Was Hell to Pay I’ve been thinking a lot about water. And power. And Texas. You know from the news they’ve been grappling with a crisis there brought on by unexpectedly wicked winter weather. And made worse by an incompetent, ill-prepared Republican state government that, as LBJ used to say, couldn’t pour sand out... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 17, 2021 The Truth on Trial at Trump’s Second Impeachment While watching Saturday’s events in the U.S. Senate and the gamut of public reaction to them, I thought about the disconnect that takes place between the reality of events and the way they’re perceived from the outside looking in, especially by the media. Back in the fall of 2007, I was elected... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 05, 2021 Republicans Don’t Know Much About History. But That Won’t Stop Them Years ago, when I was back in Washington for a couple of years, writing a series for public television, I lived for a while on Capitol Hill, a couple of blocks behind the Supreme Court. In the morning when I went to work, I would walk to a nearby Metro subway station, look at the Capitol dome and... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 25, 2021 Walter Bernstein Survived the Hollywood Blacklist – And Lived to Be 101 When the brilliant songwriter George Gershwin passed away, the writer John O'Hara famously declared that Gershwin had died on July 11, 1937, "but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to." My friend and colleague Walter Bernstein died over the weekend and I don't have to believe it either. You... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 20, 2021 GOP Tickles the Dragon's Tail From The Archive: The following piece was first published by Common Dreams on 01/14/16 and is reprinted here today to mark the final day of President Donald Trump's disastrous four years in office. On May 21, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,... Read more |