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

America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters

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.

Is This Land Made for You and Me--or The Super-Rich?

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?

Happy Holidays, Corporate America - I'd Like to File a Complaint

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.

How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now

Posted on: Aug 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Super Wealthy CEOs Help Crush the American Worker, Then Cry About Class Warfare

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?

Why Is It So Hard to Bring Rapists to Justice?

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.

Why the Right Wing's Denial of Science May Screw All of Us

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.

Moyers and Winship: We Can't Let an Amateur Right-Wing Smear Campaign Destroy NPR

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.

In Defense of NPR

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.

Insider's Account of Egypt: "A Truly Civilized, Peaceful People Who Decided to Regain Control of Their Destiny"

Posted on: Feb 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

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

What the Right Gains From Poisoning Our Political Discourse and Inspiring Violence

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.

The Right Manipulates Muslims -- and Boy Scouts

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.

How the Kent State Tragedy Started a Revolt -- Have Baby Boomers Forgotten?

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.

The Tea Party Crowd Needs to Wake Up to Who the Real Villains Are

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.

Bill Moyers: The Health Bill Is a Bonanza for the Insurance Industry and Other Monied Interests

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.

Bill Moyers: We Have a Nobel Peace President Who Won't Ban Land Mines

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.

How a Legal Case Over an Idiotic Right-Wing Anti-Hillary Film Might End Up Destroying Our Democracy

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.

Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms

Posted on: Jul 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet

As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.

'The Select Few' Are Cashing in: Shocking Corruption at the Washington Post

Posted on: Jul 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.

Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

Posted on: May 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.

Why Michael Pollan Doesn't Want to Be Secretary of Agriculture

Posted on: Dec 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet

The writer is not biting at an Internet-fueled citizen's movement to draft him for the cabinet post, but he does have some suggestions.

The Big Money Barrier Surrounding the White House

Posted on: Nov 2, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Can change happen when the usual suspects are piling up money like sandbags against the public's clamor for a better deal? We'll find out.

A Truck-Sized Loophole: Corporations, Special Interests to Spend $100 Million on Convention Parties

Posted on: Aug 27, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org

The parties' conventions offer plenty of opportunity to skirt the spirit of campaign finance laws without violating them.

D.C. Is Drowning in a Sea of Campaign Cash

Posted on: Jul 20, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Follow the money -- it goes from your gas tank to the wine bars and steak houses of DC, where the payoffs from big business to politicians go down.

The Iraq War Was About Oil, All Along

Posted on: Jul 5, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.

U.S. Doublespeak a Betrayal of Iraqi Translators

Posted on: Feb 22, 2008, Source: TruthOut.org

Iraqis working with U.S. troops live in fear of being sent back to Iraq.

109th Congress: Goodbye, Farewell and Don't Let the Door Hit You...

Posted on: Dec 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet

With 19 members under federal investigation and a record-low number of days in session, let's hope our new Congress can do more than the old one did.

We Hold This Truthiness to Be Self-Evident

Posted on: Feb 7, 2006, Source: BuzzFlash

Cable hosts and politicians are increasingly making statements with no foundation in the facts. As with Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the truth may soon catch up with them.

Tigers, Bears and Bush

Posted on: Oct 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Adding to its dismal environmental record, the Bush administration now wants to permit the hunting of endangered species in other countries. Grrr!

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