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, June 13, 2019 The US Senate of Mitch the Impaler Comparisons are odious, Shakespeare wrote, and maybe so, but these days, virtually everything to do with Washington has become so foul-smelling that a mere comparison now and then seems like a tiptoe through the tulips. Comparisons: Recently, Donald Trump has been referred to as Fat Nixon, although... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 05, 2019 Enough Hesitation, House: Impeach Like Abraham Lincoln , Benjamin Franklin is one of those great Americans to whom sparkling aphorisms are attributed that may or may not be true. The Internet has only made matters worse. A favorite quote, which I always assumed was Franklin’s, appears not to be, at least as far as I can tell. I... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Trump's Upcoming Yankee Doodle Disaster Years ago, I was interviewing the college roommate of a famous politician who told the story of being sent to a shop by the pol to pick up a large impressive trophy. It would be presented at an official school dinner that night. Is this for the university president, the roommate asked? No, the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 22, 2019 A US Foreign Policy in Three Simple Words: Do No Harm “The global trend is sour.” So says Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution. That’s putting it mildly. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed , Diamond writes, “Democracy faces a global crisis. We have seen 12 consecutive years of erosion in global... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 13, 2019 The Curse of Donald Trump I know that everyone’s talking about the final episodes of HBO’s Game of Thro nes and some are comparing our current woes to the battle for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms. Hell, even our hopeless tinpot dictator of a president has tweeted GoT memes and in his cabinet room admired a poster of... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 06, 2019 Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five, and the Anniversary Waltz Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, the saying goes, but as you get older, milestone years become more significant and resonant, especially if your own memories of them remain vivid. Last year marked the 50 th anniversary of the mindboggling and tumultuous events of 1968, from the Tet offensive in... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 29, 2019 Impeach His Sorry Ass Now Over the course of my dusty television career, I have from time to time run into situations where a certain Hollywood celebrity type will make a threat—not to do interviews or make public appearances on behalf of a show, for example—unless some egregious demand of his or hers is met. It’s a trap... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 19, 2019 Barr Lies Down With Trump, Wakes Up With Fleas Ladies and gentlemen, today's Final Jeopardy question in the category Lost Americans: Where was Special Counsel Robert Mueller? He wasn’t standing there at the Department of Justice press conference Thursday morning, despite the fact that the event was about Mueller’s report on Russia, President... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Michael Copps Thinks Trump Is Trying to Put FCC Out of Business Michael Copps is a former FCC commissioner who at one point served as acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission. A former deputy assistant and assistant secretary of commerce, he holds a PhD in United States history, is one of our most articulate public interest advocates and currently... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 01, 2019 "Feckless" Trump and the Immigration Maelstrom In January, I was in Washington for a couple of days and early on a Saturday morning took a Lyft car from Capitol Hill to Georgetown for a meeting with friends. The driver and I began to talk. I know, I know, the chat with the Uber or Lyft driver has become kind of a cliché in this kind of piece... Read more |