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, 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 |
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Views Monday, August 05, 2019 Please, I'd Like to Stop Writing about Innocents Killed by Guns I’m sitting here typing away at the dining room table in the home of friends a few miles along the road from Newtown, Connecticut. In a span of just thirteen hours, there have been mass killings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Many more are wounded. Lone, young white gunmen have murdered more... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 02, 2019 Debating Democrats, Please, No Fighting in the War Room I’m not one of those people who insists that every kid on the T-ball team receive a group participation trophy, sweet as that may be. But equally, my teeth grind when I see a flurry of post-debate articles headlined, “Winners and Losers.” They reduce this most important presidential campaign of our... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Everyone's Gone to the Moon… The world has been marking the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. I've also been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 astronauts getting safely back to Earth. After all, it's one thing to get all the way up there; it's another to return in one piece. When they splashed... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 25, 2019 Mueller at the Congressional Ramparts At the end of Wednesday’s marathon appearances by special counsel Robert Mueller, I looked over at the American flag that flies across the street from my apartment building. It looked more bedraggled than usual, as if it had just endured one of those cringe-inducing Donald Trump flag hugs and now... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 22, 2019 Trump, Go Back Where You Came From Every presidential election year, Frontline , the superb investigative TV series on PBS, produces an in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican candidates. It’s called “The Choice,” and invariably offers some insights that likely you won’t see anywhere else. When I first watched the 2016... Read more |