Michael Tomasky

Looming Questions for the Democrats

Their responsibility these next two years will be to continue, without apology, on the economic path they’ve been pursuing.

Can He Build Back Better?

Many liberals worry that the Democrats are doomed. But Biden can still rebound.

Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

What Did the Democrats Win?

The minority repeatedly thwarting the will of the majority is intolerable and untenable.

Biden’s Journey Left

He now sees himself in the mold of FDR, a leader who would rise to the vast challenge history has thrust upon him and introduce sweeping change.

The Party Cannot Hold

As the Democrats struggle over their future, the divisions are stark.

A Dem for All Seasons?

Can any of these Democrats recreate and energize the Obama coalition?

Clarification

The Rules of the Game

The fight for the Democratic presidential nomination

The Dems Take Charge

The Midterms: So Close, So Far Apart

Fighting to Vote

‘The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present’ by Allan J. Lichtman

Hail to the Chief

How the Republican Party became a stewpot of sycophants, courtesans, and obscurantists

Ratfucked Again

The party that wins the right to draw the legislative maps of the 2020s will have enormous power to shape future Congresses and state legislatures

The Worst of the Worst

Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ and David Frum’s ‘Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic’

The Resistance So Far

How are the Democrats doing as an opposition party?

The Republican Anti-Trump?

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

Trump: The Scramble

Weekly, daily, indeed sometimes hourly, we have trouble believing what we see coming out of the Trump White House.

Trump: The Gang