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Michael Winship: Labor Says Mott's Apples Are Rotten to the Core

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

Labor Says Mott's Apples Are Rotten to the Core

By Michael Winship

Among the many TV ad jingles sadly cluttering my brain since childhood (although useful in trivia contests) is the one that went, "The finest apples from Apple Land/Make Mott's Apple Sauce taste grand!"

A branchful of the juicy, singing fruit would belt it out at the end of commercials that urged us to use applesauce to...

Michael Winship: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

By Michael Winship

As citizens of the nation continue through the summer, distracting themselves from difficult truths by howling at the moon and one another, I spent this past weekend in Manhattan seeing revivals of two classic period pieces of American theater. Magnificent productions of Our Town and South Pacific are about to close after long successful ...

Michael Winship: The Wall and the Mosque: Divide and Unite

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

The Wall and the Mosque: Divide and Unite

By Michael Winship

The current fight over the building of an Islamic study center near Ground Zero here in Manhattan is reminiscent of another battle nearly thirty years ago. Then, too, ignorance, rage and prejudice threatened to destroy the creation of something intended to help mend a grievous wound and foster understanding and reconciliation.

In ...

Michael Winship: The Right Manipulates Muslims - and Boy Scouts

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

The Right Manipulates Muslims - and Boy Scouts

By Michael Winship

I was never a Boy Scout but I was a helluva Cub Scout.
Pack 30, First Congregational Church. I rose through the ranks: Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Lion. I accumulated Gold and Silver Arrow Points, the Cubs' junior varsity version of merit badges. My mom was a Cub Scout den mother and spent a lot of time teaching f...

Michael Winship: Don't You Know There's a War On?

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

"Don't You Know There's a War On?"

By Michael Winship

A recent headline on the New York Daily News website was blunt: "In case you've forgotten," it read, "we're at war."

The story was about the deaths of six Americans in Afghanistan in five separate attacks and one accidental explosion, all on the same day. The day before, coalition forces had mistakenly killed six Afghan civilians when an ...

Michael Winship: On the Foul Line with the Chamber of Commerce

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

"On the Foul Line with the Chamber of Commerce"

By Michael Winship

I may be one of the only Manhattan residents not disappointed with LeBron James' televised announcement that, "This fall, I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat."

You see, when the basketball superstar was contemplating signing with the New York Knicks last week, he came house...

Michael Winship: This Fourth of July, Celebrate "1776" -- The Movie

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

"This Fourth of July, Celebrate "1776" -- The Movie"

By Michael Winship

As we commemorate the Fourth of July, one of the joys -- and there are many -- of life in these United States is that you never know what the hell we, the people, will say next.

There's the delightful teenage girl in Montclair, New Jersey, who when informed this week that the nice married couple nearby had been...

W.S. Merwin -- The New Poet Laureate

W.S. Merwin has just been named the new Poet Laureate for the United States. View Bill Moyers interview with Merwin below:

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What's Next in the Marriage Wars: Olson and Boies on Prop 8

In February 2010 Bill Moyers talked with lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies. Once adversaries in 2000's Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, now two of the nation's premier lawyers -- one conservative and one liberal -- teamed up to make the constitutional case for same-sex marriage. The duo has just finished presenting their arguments to the court against California's Proposition 8 -- the 2008 ballot initiative tha...

Michael Winship: Miley, We Hardly Knew Ye

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

"Miley, We Hardly Knew Ye"

By Michael Winship

Amidst all the news of petrochemical malfeasance in the Gulf - and thank you Rep. Joe Barton, pride of Texas, for your apology to BP, demonstrating everything that's wrong with a Congress jammed too snugly in the pocket of big business - I watched teen sensation Miley Cyrus on David Letterman Thursday night.

Oh my. Listening to her, I thought...