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 Thursday, November 19, 2020 The Petty Revenge of a Soon-to-Be-Ex-President In Mary L. Trump’s book about her family, Too Much and Never Enough , there’s a moment referred to in the index as the “mashed potatoes incident.” Apparently, young Donald was a major pill almost from birth, undisciplined, rude and nasty to his siblings and his mother. One night at dinner, he was,... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 09, 2020 Hoorays for the Biden/Harris Victory, But the Battle's Far From Over Late Saturday morning and they had just called it. I was sitting here writing with the TV muted and my back to the windows when I started hearing some yelling on the street. I didn’t know what it was, then looked up at the television and saw the news. Outside, fist pumping and cheers, people... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 02, 2020 Vote as If Your Life Depends on It. Because It Does. November 3 rd is upon us. At the risk of overstating the obvious, if you haven’t already done so, and in the name of all that’s good and fair, please exercise your right to vote. It’s more crucial than ever. Truly. I come by this attitude honestly. Somewhere around here I have a photocopy of an old... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 31, 2020 A Few Days Away From Nov. 3, Another Week of Trumpian Havoc Hard to believe. Coming into the final stretch, remarkably it seems that—in some of their TV ads at least—the Trump campaign's closing argument is: Oh c'mon, he's not so bad. If you know anyone who has yet to vote, or who hasn't a plan to do so over the next few days, please gently nudge them in... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 23, 2020 That Final Debate Was a Parade of Presidential Prevarication I live in a ghost town – at least Donald Trump seems to think so. It’s “a ghost town!” he exclaimed more than once at Thursday night’s second and last debate with Joe Biden. “Take a look at New York and what’s happened to my wonderful city. For so many years, I loved it. It was vibrant. It’s dying... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Scott Atlas Is Trump’s Doctor Death After all this time, most of us realize that Donald Trump is a Russian asset. Not that he’s a secret mole necessarily or even The Manchurian Candidate, but Vladimir Putin plays him like a balalaika strumming Song of the Volga Boatmen. No one but the two of them knows with absolute certainty why... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 10, 2020 When Donald Trump’s Mini-Me Met a Rational Grown Up On that day in July 2016 when Donald Trump chose him as his vice-presidential running mate, Mike Pence must have felt like the luckiest man alive, or at least the luckiest Republican – whatever species that is these days. Running for re-election as governor of Indiana, Pence was down ten points in... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 06, 2020 How to Turn Ten Days Into a Lifetime To review the events of the last week and a half is to contemplate a nation that is seriously off its rocker. This will not come as news to you, but in a year that already has been extraordinary in the scope of its insanity, from the trivial to the deeply tragic, these past ten days have been... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 30, 2020 That Was No Debate, It Was a 90-Minute Insult to America Years ago, when I was a high school sophomore, at the beginning of the academic year one of our teachers gave us an assignment to come up with ideas to reform the American political system. Dutiful wonk that I was even then, I came up with my list of serious, thoughtful changes not all that... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 29, 2020 Here's Your Hat, Donald Trump, What's Your Hurry? The other night, amidst all our upending national disasters, I was taken with an offhand comment—or rather, offhand tweet—made by presidential historian Michael Beschloss. On March 4, 1861, Beschloss wrote , “Defeated candidate Stephen Douglas held Abraham Lincoln’s hat while the new President gave... Read more |