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Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky on the “quixotic” and “corrosive” Cornel West and RFK Jr. campaigns for president

John Fea   |  July 20, 2023

The editor of The New Republic thinks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and No Labels “are effectively surrogates for Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.” Here is a taste of his piece: You might think, in a two-party democracy where the […]

Joe Biden is amassing an electable resumĂ© “without making a big show of it”

John Fea   |  June 26, 2023

Here is a taste of Michael Tomasky’s New Republic piece “Democrats, Wake the Hell Up!”: Nobody seems to have noticed this, but over the course of the spring, the country’s four leading freight rail carriers agreed to grant the vast majority of […]

Gerson: The GOP view on vaccines is not pro-life

John Fea   |  December 8, 2021

Yesterday we wrote about Michael Tomasky’s piece titled ““The Right Wants to Freedom Us to Death.” Today we have Michael Gerson’s Washington Post column, “How is the GOP’s coronavirus recklessness compatible with being pro-life?” Here is a taste: During last […]

Tomasky: The Right’s view of liberty during this pandemic is “incompatible with human life”

John Fea   |  December 7, 2021

Michael Tomasky is the editor of The New Republic. Here is a taste of his piece, “The Right Wants to Freedom Us to Death”: Future historians—that is, if future historians are actual historians and not a bunch of hired-gun fascist […]

What is going on at *The New Republic*?

John Fea   |  April 2, 2021

Not everyone on the magazine’s staff is happy about the arrival of new editor Michael Tomasky. They seem even more upset about The New Republic‘s decision to move its office from New York to Washington D.C. Now it looks like […]