Michael Tomasky
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Looming Questions for the Democrats
If you’re searching for the perfect, alarming symbol of our perfectly, alarmingly divided polity, you might look to the 142nd district of the Pennsylvania → Read More
Can He Build Back Better?
How to assess the Joe Biden presidency one year in? The economy is booming as it hasn’t in decades: between January and October 2021, real GDP grew at an → Read More
Case Closed: This Was a MAGA Murder Mob Out For Trump’s Foes
The videos show it was only the courage of some officers and a few strokes of dumb luck that saved some members of our government from being murdered by fans of the then president. → Read More
Josh Hawley’s McCarthyist Smear Is a Perfect Specimen of GOP Bull
This is the next phase in the GOP’s war on reality: to make the Democrats seem like the party of violence. → Read More
Here’s The Real Reason That Republican Senators Will Again Acquit Trump
They don’t want to punish him for what he did because they know that a Republican president may do something like it again. → Read More
Opinion | Why a Trump Third Party Would Be a Boon for Democrats
We really have room for only two major parties at a time in the United States. → Read More
Trump Nearly Burned America to the Ground. Your Move, Joe.
To live up to the needs of the nation and the hopes of the left, our 46th president will first have to clear the wreckage left to him by our 45th president. → Read More
Trump's Second Impeachment Was the Usual Freak Show for House Republicans
After four-plus years standing behind this criminal, his party still isn’t ready to quit him. → Read More
Sorry, Joe, but We Can’t Move on Without Punishing Trump for His Crimes Against Democracy
I’m sure Biden doesn’t want this mess given all the things he needs to do in short order, but this isn’t just about him. It’s about ensuring the survival of our democracy. → Read More
The GOP Can’t Stop Biden but They’ll Murder Democracy Trying
Maybe the voters of Georgia will surprise us and make this a week to celebrate. If Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff manage to eke out victories, then the whole story of the 2020 election changes from one in which the Democrats took the White House but got clubbed everywhere else to a story of a narrow but clear rejection of Trumpism (in which case thank you, Stacey Abrams). But if that doesn’t… → Read More
Josh Hawley Wants to Be America’s Most Dangerous Republican
Keep an eye on this guy. He’s Trump without the stupidity or incompetence or personal obnoxiousness or open racism. → Read More
Loser Trump Wants to Drag the Republican Party Down With Him
Trump doesn’t care who runs the Senate if he’s not president. He cares about screwing McConnell and making clear that Republicans can't win without him. → Read More
Trump’s Stages of Election-Loss Grief: Denial, Lies, Rage and Fascism
Even if Monday and the 37 days after that go smoothly, and that’s an awfully big if, this is one of the darkest moments this country has ever experienced. → Read More
How Dinkins and Giuliani Foretold the Future of American Politics
Mayoral elections in New York City helped blaze an unhappy trail to our national state of two warring camps. → Read More
The Biden Era Is Really Here, and It Feels Like a Miracle
Imagine: The guy whose every sentence will potentially be news will be a normal and decent human being who understands in a sincere way that he is a public servant. → Read More
What Did the Democrats Win?
For now, democracy is hanging on. I’ve been writing presidential election postmortems every four years since 1992, and I never imagined I’d open one with → Read More
Stop Freaking Out. Joe Biden Is Going to Be President.
Trump and his crew are going to say insane things. But they can’t make them happen. → Read More
The People Picked Joe Biden as Our President. Will Donald Trump and His GOP Accept That?
Two paths lay before us—and unfortunately, Donald Trump can still help determine which path this nation takes. → Read More
There’s a Word for Why We Wear Masks, and Liberals Should Say It
It’s high time Democrats played some philosophical offense on the concept of “freedom.” → Read More
Brace Yourself for the Most Furious Trumpworld Spinning Ever
This—like everything else in our politics, but in highly concentrated form—will come down to a battle of narratives. → Read More