Stories by Michael Winship

Michael Winship is senior writing fellow at Demos and a senior writer of the new series, Moyers & Company, airing on public television. subscribe to Michael Winship's feed

Posted on: Oct 15, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

There’s a movement afoot to punish judges for decisions that offend political partisans.

Posted on: Oct 10, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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?”

Posted on: Oct 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet

That ringing in your ears isn’t church bells or a touch of tinnitus. It’s the sound of campaign cash registers all over the country.

Posted on: Sep 23, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

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

Posted on: Aug 31, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Reviving Reed's sordid role in defending sweatshops that exploited women in the Mariana Islands.

Posted on: Aug 24, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Posted on: Jul 20, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

There are some 300 million guns in the United States, one in four adult Americans owns at least one and most of them are men.

Posted on: Jul 14, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Posted on: Jun 15, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

A handful of very rich people plan to buy our elections. What happened to our democracy?

Posted on: Jun 3, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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.

Posted on: May 25, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

If we really want to honor the Americans who gave their lives fighting for their country, we must redouble our efforts to make sure we’re worthy of their sacrifice.

Posted on: Apr 26, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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.”

Posted on: Apr 18, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

The new rule would require the ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates in the top 50 markets to make their files on political advertising available on line immediately.

Posted on: Apr 12, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Posted on: Apr 6, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Special interests spread money like manure on the campaign trails of key members of Congress.

Posted on: Mar 30, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Posted on: Mar 23, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

The creativity and unique visions of life captured by independent producers, journalists and filmmakers deserve the best possible platform on public television.

Posted on: Mar 6, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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.

Posted on: Feb 29, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Parents are increasingly opting out of vaccinating their kids. Here's why that's dangerous for the world.

Posted on: Feb 24, 2012, Source: Salon

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

Posted on: Feb 14, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

The race for the White House may cost more than two billion dollars. What’s getting trampled into dust are the voices of people who aren't rich.

Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

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

Posted on: Jan 23, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.”

Posted on: Jan 17, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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.

Posted on: Jan 15, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship ponder the question at the heart of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"--what kind of America do we want?

Posted on: Dec 23, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

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.

Posted on: Aug 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Posted on: Jul 31, 2011, Source: AlterNet

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

Posted on: Jun 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet

A new documentary about a real life Special Victims Unit shows how tough it is to make rapists pay for their crime.

Posted on: Jun 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet

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

Posted on: Mar 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Public media is essential to American life -- without public radio, the reactionaries among us will hold a monopoly on the airwaves.

Posted on: Mar 11, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

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

Posted on: Feb 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Olfa G. Tantawi, an Egyptian mother of two, talks about what the revolution means for her country.

Posted on: Jan 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet

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.

Posted on: Aug 3, 2010, Source: TruthOut.org

Not for the first time have elements of the right shamelessly tried to use the Boy Scouts, of all organizations, to impugn the Obama White House.

Posted on: May 10, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

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

Posted on: Apr 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The Wall Street banks are the new American oligarchy -- but the Tea Party crowd can't seem to see it.

Posted on: Mar 28, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

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.

Posted on: Dec 11, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

The Nobel Committee said Obama won the prize for his respect of international law and his efforts at disarmament, yet he won't even sign on to end a barbaric weapon.

Posted on: Sep 4, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

A nasty little piece of propaganda could unleash a new torrent of cash flooding into campaigns from big business, unions and other special interests.

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