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|credits = ''[[Democracy (journal)|Democracy]]'',<br>''[[The Daily Beast]]'',<br>''[[Guardian America]]'',<br>''[[The American Prospect]]'',<br>''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'',<br>''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' |
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| ⚫ | '''Michael John Tomasky''' (born October 13, 1960<ref>{{cite web|last=Tomasky|first=Michael|title=Birthday|publisher=twitter.com|url=https://twitter.com/mtomasky/status/257526585039663104|date=October 14, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2014}}</ref>) is an American columnist, progressive commentator, and author. He is the editor of ''[[The New Republic]]''<ref>{{cite web |website=newrepublic.com |url=https://newrepublic.com/pages/people|title=The New Republic }}</ref> and editor in chief of ''[[Democracy (journal)|Democracy]]''. He has been a special correspondent for ''[[Newsweek]]'', ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', a contributing editor for ''[[The American Prospect]]'', and a contributor to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''. |
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'''Michael Tomasky''' (born |
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==Life and career== |
==Life and career== |
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Tomasky was born and raised in [[Morgantown, West Virginia]], the son of Maria (Aluisi) and Michael Tomasky, a trial attorney.<ref>http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx? |
Tomasky was born and raised in [[Morgantown, West Virginia]], the son of Maria (Aluisi) and Michael Tomasky, a trial attorney.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=mary-tomasky&pid=122329588|title=Mary Tomasky's Obituary on The Columbus Dispatch|website=The Columbus Dispatch|access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref> He is of Serbian and Italian descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/jul/10/happy-birthday-tesla|title=Michael Tomasky: The great Tesla|first=Michael|last=Tomasky|date=10 July 2009|access-date=1 October 2017|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Tomasky |url=http://www.democracyjournal.org/19/6796.php?page=all |title=Moral Witness Through Comedy |access-date=2019-10-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227094620/http://www.democracyjournal.org/19/6796.php?page=all |archive-date=2011-02-27 |work=[[Democracy (journal)|Democracy]]}}</ref> He graduated from [[Morgantown High School]].<ref>{{cite web |title=MHS Distinguished Alumni - Morgantown High School |url=https://mohigans.mono.k12.wv.us/about-us/mhs-distinguished-alumni |website=mohigans.mono.k12.wv.us |access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref> He attended [[West Virginia University]] as an undergraduate and then studied political science in graduate school at [[New York University]]. His work has also appeared in ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[The Village Voice]]'', ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', ''[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent]]'', ''[[Lingua Franca (magazine)|Lingua Franca]]'', ''[[George (magazine)|George]]'', and ''[[GQ]]''. He lives with his wife Sarah and daughter (Margot Julianna Kerr Tomasky, born July 6, 2010) in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2010/jul/09/margot-julianna-kerr-tomasky In lieu of the Friday quiz, an introduction], Michael Tomasky, ''[[The Guardian]]'', July 9, 2010</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2010/jul/12/us-politics-liberals-despair-debate Liberals and despair], Michael Tomasky, ''[[The Guardian]]'', July 12, 2010</ref> |
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From 1995 to 2002, Tomasky was a columnist at ''[[New York magazine|New York]]'' magazine, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. He was later executive editor of ''[[The American Prospect]]'', and remains a contributing editor.<ref>[http://www.prospect.org/cs/about_tap/masthead Masthead] ''[[The American Prospect]]''</ref> On October 23, 2007, ''[[Guardian America]]'' was launched with Tomasky as its editor.<ref>[ |
From 1995 to 2002, Tomasky was a columnist at ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. He was later executive editor of [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] magazine ''[[The American Prospect]]'', and remains a contributing editor.<ref>[http://www.prospect.org/cs/about_tap/masthead Masthead] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611230711/http://www.prospect.org/cs/about_tap/masthead |date=2010-06-11 }} ''[[The American Prospect]]''</ref> On October 23, 2007, ''[[Guardian America]]'' was launched with Tomasky as its editor.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/23/welcometoguardianamerica Welcome to Guardian America], Michael Tomasky, ''[[The Guardian]]'', October 23, 2007</ref> On March 3, 2009, he replaced [[Kenneth Baer]] as editor of U.S. political journal ''[[Democracy (journal)|Democracy]]'', at which time his title at ''[[The Guardian]]'' changed to editor-at-large.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/feb/18/michael-tomasky-editor-democracy Michael Tomasky joins political journal Democracy], Jemima Kiss, ''[[The Guardian]]'', February 18, 2009</ref> In May 2011 Tomasky left ''[[The Guardian]]'' to join ''[[Newsweek]] / [[The Daily Beast]]'' as a special correspondent.<ref>[http://www.democracyjournal.org/arguments/2011/04/democracy-editor-tomasky-joins-newsweekdaily-beast.php Democracy Editor Tomasky Joins Newsweek/Daily Beast], ''[[Democracy (journal)|Democracy]]'', April 25, 2011</ref> He is the editor of ''[[The New Republic]]''. |
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Tomasky is the author of ''Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America'' (1996), and of ''Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign'' (2001), a chronicle of [[Hillary Clinton]]'s successful election to the Senate in 2000. |
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| ⚫ | *{{cite book |title=Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America |url=https://archive.org/details/leftfordeadlifed00toma |url-access=registration |first=Michael |last=Tomasky |publisher=Free Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-684-82750-6}} |
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| ⚫ | *{{cite book |title=Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign |url=https://archive.org/details/hillarysturninsi00toma |url-access=registration |first=Michael |last=Tomasky |publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]] |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-684-87302-2}} |
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*{{cite book |title=Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001 |first=Michael |last=Tomasky |publisher=[[Times Books]] |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-62779-676-7}} |
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*{{cite book |title=If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved |first=Michael |last=Tomasky |publisher=[[Boni & Liveright|W.W. Norton/Liveright Publishing]] |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-631-49408-6}} |
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* {{cite journal |first=Michael |last=Tomasky |date=February 22, 2018 |title=The worst of the worst |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=4, 6, 8 |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/02/22/trump-wolff-worst-of-the-worst/ |accessdate=June 22, 2018}} Reviewed: {{cite book |last=Wolff |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Wolff (journalist) |title=[[Fire and Fury|Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House]] |publisher=Henry Holt |year= <!--isbn=-->}}; {{cite book |first=David |last=Frum |author-link=David Frum |title=Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic |publisher=Harper |year= <!--isbn=-->}} |
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In an October 2010 essay, ''"The Elections: How Bad for Democrats?"'', Tomasky gives his "own answer to the question of how things got this bad," expounding a theme he had been developing for several years in other articles: |
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:Since the Reagan years, "Republicans routinely speak in broad themes and tend to blur the details, while Democrats typically ignore broad themes and focus on details. Republicans, for example, speak constantly of “liberty” and “freedom” and couch practically all their initiatives—tax cuts, deregulation, and so forth—within these large categories. Democrats, on the other hand, talk more about specific programs and policies and steer clear of big themes....What Democrats have typically not done well since Reagan’s time is connect their policies to their larger beliefs. In fact they have usually tried to hide those beliefs, or change the conversation when the subject arose. The result has been that for many years Republicans have been able to present their philosophy as somehow truly “American,” while attacking the Democratic belief system as contrary to American values.<ref>[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/28/elections-how-bad-democrats/ The Elections: How Bad for Democrats?], Michael Tomasky, ''[[The New York Review of Books]],'' October 28, 2010, p. 6</ref> |
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*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/michael-tomasky/ Column archive] at ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' |
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/michael-tomasky/ Column archive] at ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' |
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*[http://www.democracyjournal.org/ Democracy] |
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*[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michaeltomasky Column archive] at ''[[The Guardian]]'' |
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*[http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/tomasky-michael/ Column archive] at ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' |
*[http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/tomasky-michael/ Column archive] at ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' |
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*[http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/2474 Conversations] with ''[[Charlie Rose]]'' |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101221020957/http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/2474 Conversations] with ''[[Charlie Rose]]'' |
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*[http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Tomasky,%20Michael Video discussions/debates involving Tomasky] on ''[[Bloggingheads.tv]]'' |
*[http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Tomasky,%20Michael Video discussions/debates involving Tomasky] on ''[[Bloggingheads.tv]]'' |
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Michael Tomasky
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| Born | Michael John Tomasky (1960-10-13) October 13, 1960 (age 63) |
| Education | West Virginia University (BA) New York University (MA) |
Michael John Tomasky (born October 13, 1960[1]) is an American columnist, progressive commentator, and author. He is the editor of The New Republic[2] and editor in chief of Democracy. He has been a special correspondent for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, the son of Maria (Aluisi) and Michael Tomasky, a trial attorney.[3] He is of Serbian and Italian descent.[4][5] He graduated from Morgantown High School.[6] He attended West Virginia University as an undergraduate and then studied political science in graduate school at New York University. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George, and GQ. He lives with his wife Sarah and daughter (Margot Julianna Kerr Tomasky, born July 6, 2010) in Silver Spring, Maryland.[7][8]
From 1995 to 2002, Tomasky was a columnist at New York magazine, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. He was later executive editor of liberal magazine The American Prospect, and remains a contributing editor.[9] On October 23, 2007, Guardian America was launched with Tomasky as its editor.[10] On March 3, 2009, he replaced Kenneth Baer as editor of U.S. political journal Democracy, at which time his title at The Guardian changed to editor-at-large.[11] In May 2011 Tomasky left The Guardian to join Newsweek / The Daily Beast as a special correspondent.[12] He is the editor of The New Republic.
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