Stories by Michael Winship

There are two more presidential debates. They will be yet another hoax unless someone asks “Why are we killing the kids that don’t need to die?”

Mitt's clandestine video grabbed all the attention this week, but money -- much of it dark -- rules both campaigns.

Why don't we hear Obama speak about poor people?

Three things don’t go together: Money. Secrecy. Democracy. That’s the nub of the matter.

Since 1979, 377 members of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans have given almost half a billion dollars to candidates of both parties, most of it in the last decade.

Tea Party favorite Allen West was asked at a local gathering how many of his fellow members of Congress are “card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists.”

Former allies are turning on the president now that he wants to close gaping tax loopholes for the 1 percent.

It's a business that values the almighty dollar over public service. Let's change that.

There is resistance from banks and certain members of Congress to releasing information that could keep us from the edge of yet another economic meltdown.

Mike Daisey's one-man show has galvanized public opinion against the electronic giant's labor practices.

It may be bleak on Main Street, but Wall Street's partying like it's 2006.

While police have cleared many Occupy encampments, a collective cry, loud and clear, has gone up from countless voices across the country: Enough's enough.

As my Christmas gift to the One Percent, here’s a suggestion: Take back some of those millions in executive compensation and invest them in real customer service.

The reckless finance class that torpedoed the economy continues to accuse President Obama of class warfare. Are they kidding?

It's the science that right-wingers dismiss as "junk" that could help save us, not that they want to hear that.

Consider an America without public media. Consider a society where the distortions and dissembling would go unchallenged, where fact-based reporting is eliminated.

Gifford's shooting, and the death and wounding of so many who came to meet with her, are just the latest example of ideologically-motivated bloodshed.

Just like today, it was difficult 40 years ago to maintain a high level of activism and political engagement over the long haul.

So we got health care reform last week -- but it's a far cry from reformation. For all their gnashing of teeth, the insurance companies still make out like bandits.