Screenwriter Walter Berrnstein was a brave opponent of right-wing repression during a dark period of our history.
Michael Winship
Senior Writer
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.
ALL POSTS BY Michael Winship
August 17, 2020The president and his obeisant postmaster general are out to destroy voting by mail – and democracy
July 1, 2020Now that the pandemic is raging in the south and west, Trump’s governors finally are face-to-face with reality. Wear a damn mask.
June 16, 2020Trump and Barr are at the forefront, trying to scare the citizenry with tales of anarchy and destruction.
June 12, 2020As George Floyd’s daughter said, in death, her daddy changed the world. The least the rest of us can do is try to make that change permanent.
May 5, 2020Today’s pandemic alters our tradition of protest and dissent.
April 28, 2020There's no imaginable excuse for his words and inaction, but a simple apology couldn’t hurt.
November 9, 2019And not just on digital platforms but on your regular local station
November 7, 2019The House of Representatives has announced thatwill begin on Wednesday, November 13. We believe that for the sake of the nation, public television should not only broadcast the public hearings in the impeachment inquiry live as they happen but repeat them in primetime so that Americans who work during the day have a chance to watch and judge for themselves Donald Trump’s guilt or innocence.
December 19, 2017At year's end, Donald Trump and Congress are putting a lump of "clean, beautiful coal" in our stockings.
