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Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky is the editor of The New Republic and the author of five books, including his latest and critically acclaimed The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity. With extensive experience as an editor, columnist, progressive commentator, and special correspondent for renowned publications such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Daily Beast, and many others, Tomasky has been a trusted voice in political journalism for more than three decades.

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August 2, 2021
Michael Tomasky
“Dear Sarah, This Is God. Please Just Stay Home.”
Just when you thought the United States Senate couldn’t get any worse....
July 26, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Maybe Mitch McConnell Is Just an Evil Mediocrity
Should Biden get his infrastructure deal, it will be a rare defeat for the Senate’s master of nihilism.
July 12, 2021
Michael Tomasky
This Is an Important Week. Thank Rosa DeLauro.
Expanded child tax credit checks start going out to families this week. Finally, we have a government that is redistributing wealth in the right direction.
July 7, 2021
Michael Tomasky
How Stephen Breyer Is Helping to Destroy the Norms He Claims to Cherish
The Republican Party will use the justice’s sentimental beliefs about democracy against him.
June 28, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Why This Anti-Science Fanaticism Is Dangerous for Democracy
The blue versus red vaccine divide is troubling from a public health perspective—and terrifying from a democratic perspective.
June 21, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Since When Is Being an Election Official a Job to Die For?
Local election officials around the country are getting death threats. Many are quitting their jobs. The Justice Department needs to do something.
June 14, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Forget Putin, Merkel, and Macron. It’s Manchin, Sinema, and Feinstein Who Need the Democracy Lecture.
Joe Biden is making some necessary defenses of democracy abroad. I can’t help wishing he’d make them more forcefully here at home.
June 7, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Yes, Take This Seriously: It’s Time to Kill the Senate
The upper body of Congress has become a colossal wreck where democracy goes to die.
June 1, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Don McGahn’s Testimony Is One More Wall Quickly Closing In on Donald Trump
The former president is learning that the old, responsibility-evading tricks he used as a private-sector scammer don’t work once you’ve held public office.
August 16, 2018
MagazineMichael Tomasky
Can the Democrats Fix Washington?
The prospect of a Democratic wave in the midterm elections this fall recalls the moment, nearly 50 years ago, when a group of young, liberal lawmakers swept into Congress on a mission to overturn the status quo. What can today's Democrats learn from the historic class of 1974?
May 30, 2017
MagazineMichael Tomasky
Elitism Is Liberalism’s Biggest Problem
There are plenty of non-deplorables in middle America. The Democrats need to learn how to embrace them.
October 28, 2009
Michael Tomasky
In the Tank
May 9, 2008
Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky On The Unity Ticket
March 12, 2008
Michael Tomasky
Jackboots and Whole Foods

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