Michael Winship
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Trump's conspirators haven't given up
Location, location, location. For good or evil, history often is made in the confines of a hotel room or suite: whether the first meeting of the post-revolution Soviet government at Moscow's Hotel National in 1918, or the drafting in 1922 of Ireland's constitution at the lovely Shelbourne Hotel in D... → Read More
Right-wing loudmouths have made their madness clear to all
In the weeks since the 20th anniversary of 9/11, sensory memories of that disastrous day -- things I haven't thought about in years – came flooding back.In the hours and days immediately after the collapse of the twin towers, I remember the National Guardsmen posted at a nearby intersection checking... → Read More
The biggest threat to Israel is the occupation
I first met Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, the Israeli peace and anti-apartheid activist, on a sunny spring Sunday in Jerusalem almost exactly seventeen years ago, in 2004. It was at the end of the second Intifada, and a few of us clambered into a van so that she and a colleague could give us a tour of w... → Read More
The Biggest Threat to Israel Is the Occupation
I first met Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, the Israeli peace and anti-apartheid activist, on a sunny spring Sunday in Jerusalem almost exactly seventeen years ago, in 2004. It was at the end of the second Intifada, and a few of us clambered into a van so that she and a colleague could give us a tour of what it was like to be a Palestinian living in the Occupied Territories. It was → Read More
These days, you don't have to be delusional to be in the Republican leadership
If you've chosen to read this, it's a fair bet you're been aware for quite some time that the Republican Party has gone completely insane—especially if you agree with that classic definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.Time and again the GOP and... → Read More
GOP: We Just May Be the Lunatics You’re Looking For
If you've chosen to read this, it's a fair bet you're been aware for quite some time that the Republican Party has gone completely insane—especially if you agree with that classic definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.Time and again the GOP and their scarecrow leader Donald Trump have proven the wisdom of that definition. → Read More
Forget about the Naysayers: Don’t Throw Away Your Shot
I’m a sucker for an old song, maybe with a twist: Would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar – or would you rather get your dose of the COVID vaccine?If you’re familiar with that tune, “Swinging on a Star,” which back in the day won an Oscar for Best Original Song, you’re probably sufficiently senior to qualify for a place at the front of the line to → Read More
The truth on trial at Trump’s second impeachment
While watching Saturday's events in the U.S. Senate and the gamut of public reaction to them, I thought about the disconnect that takes place between the reality of events and the way they're perceived from the outside looking in, especially by the media.Back in the fall of 2007, I was elected presi... → Read More
Republicans don't know much about history
Years ago, when I was back in Washington for a couple of years, writing a series for public television, I lived for a while on Capitol Hill, a couple of blocks behind the Supreme Court. In the morning when I went to work, I would walk to a nearby Metro subway station, look at the Capitol dome and so... → Read More
Republicans Don’t Know Much About History. But That Won’t Stop Them
Years ago, when I was back in Washington for a couple of years, writing a series for public television, I lived for a while on Capitol Hill, a couple of blocks behind the Supreme Court. In the morning when I went to work, I would walk to a nearby Metro subway station, look at the Capitol dome and sometimes stare across the Potomac to Virginia.During the Civil War, I’d think, → Read More
The Capitol Invasion Must be the End of the Line for Trump
Resign, Donald Trump. There will now be a pause for gales of laughter. As if that will happen. Unless he bails a day or two before the inauguration so Pence can pardon him… | By Michael Winship → Read More
As we come to the end of four rotten years, Trump spends his final days throwing trauma-inducing tantrums
And it came upon a midnight clear during this holiday season that after weeks and months alternating between negotiation and inertia, Congress finally reached agreement with the White House and passed a new $908 billion relief bill that provided a stimulus payment of $600 to each qualified citizen.O... → Read More
The Final Days of Donald Trump, Absentee President
Pardon my silence these last few days, but the out-of-control firehose that is the Trump White House has upped the water pressure with increased insanity, mendacity and just plain idiotic behavior. It can overwhelm. | By Michael Winship → Read More
Make the Bad Man Stop: An End to the Bullying Trump Years Can’t Come Soon Enough
During these last few weeks since the election, watching the further decline of President Donald Trump as he descends even more into madness, denial, destructiveness and self-proclaimed victimhood, two magical movie moments keep popping into my head. | By Michael Winship → Read More
That Was No Debate, It Was a 90-Minute Insult to America
Years ago, when I was a high school sophomore, at the beginning of the academic year one of our teachers gave us an assignment to come up with ideas to reform the American political system.Dutiful wonk that I was even then, I came up with my list of serious, thoughtful changes not all that different from a lot of what we’re still debating today—abolishing the Electoral → Read More
Our Fake Commander-in-Chief Steps on a Landmine—Again
Reading the latest story about Donald Trump’s grievous insults to the military, I thought of a scene that was cut from the original version of The Godfather.It comes right after the big wedding that opens the movie. Don Vito Corleone and his sons go to the hospital where his consigliere Genco Abbandando is dying (Robert Duvall’s character Tom Hagen will succeed him). As they → Read More
For Trump and GOP, No Hope, Just the Audacity of Lies
During the first Clinton term, I worked on the public TV series In Performance at the White House.One of our episodes was an Aretha Franklin concert on the South Lawn. The show was great. It goes without saying what a remarkable talent she was. But Ms. Franklin was demanding, too. At one point she insisted we shoot her in a designer ballgown as she made a grand entrance, → Read More
Don’t Let This Mad, Manic President Wear You Down
The GOP convention reminds us that this freakshow of mayhem can exhaust and distract from the mission at hand... Today’s conjugation lesson: I am worn out, you are worn out, we all are worn out. → Read More
Stamp Out the Trump Attacks on Our Postal Service!
As one of our most august Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin would tell Donald Trump to go fly a kite. And hope for a major electrical storm. Then Ben would advise Trump to keep his mitts off our post office.By all accounts, Franklin was a smart and charming fellow, the kind of 18th century raconteur with whom you’d like to sit around a tavern fire and quaff a hot buttered → Read More
Covid-19 'Has Laid Bare' the Crisis of Healthcare in America
Time flies. Hard to believe that it was twelve years ago that healthcare reform activist Wendell Potter left his job as head of corporate communications at Cigna and shortly after, loudly blew the whistle on the gross malpractices of the health insurance industry that had employed him. | By Michael Winship → Read More