| Michael Tomasky | |
| Birthname: | Michael John Tomasky |
| Birth Date: | 13 October 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S. |
| 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.