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, 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 |
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Views Monday, January 18, 2021 When Trump's Out the Door, Biden Tackles the Winter of Our Discontent A few weeks ago, I was contemplating writing a piece for right about now suggesting that as a symbolic gesture and public service, one of Joe Biden’s first orders should be to tear down much of that ugly hurricane fencing around the White House and the surrounding neighborhood. After four years of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 07, 2021 The Capitol Invasion Must be the End of the Line for Trump Resign, Donald Trump. There will now be a pause for gales of laughter. As if that will happen. Unless he bails a day or two before the inauguration so Pence can pardon him… So impeach him again and this time, convict. I know it's a longshot fantasy given the time frame, but it would be a pleasure... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 04, 2021 Old Congress, New Congress: Profiles in Sore Losing Ever since it first was published in 1956, there has been a joke about John F. Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage (largely ghosted by speechwriter and advisor Ted Sorensen), historical portraits of eight US senators who demonstrated bravery in the face of enormous political opposition. Kennedy... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Donald John Trump's "Seditious Abuse" And it came upon a midnight clear during this holiday season that after weeks and months alternating between negotiation and inertia, Congress finally reached agreement with the White House and passed a new $908 billion relief bill that provided a stimulus payment of $600 to each qualified citizen... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 20, 2020 The Final Days of Donald Trump, Absentee President Pardon my silence these last few days, but the out-of-control firehose that is the Trump White House has upped the water pressure with increased insanity, mendacity and just plain idiotic behavior. It can overwhelm. The soaking seems to get worse every hour and day that remains before the swearing-... Read more |