Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky writes a column on politics for New York magazine, where he has been a contributing editor since 1995. Before that, he was a columnist for The Village Voice, and, before that, The New York Observer. He is the author of two books: Left for Dead (Free Press, 1996), about the intellectual collapse of the American left over the last 30 years; and Hillary’s Turn (Free Press, 2001), about the 2000 New York Senate race. His work has appeared in a variety of other publications, including The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, GQ, Newsday, The Nation, The American Prospect, Dissent and various others. He has made numerous appearances on national television (the Today Show, CNN, Fox, MSNBC C-SPAN, etc.) and on radio. He was born in Morgantown, West Virginia. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from West Virginia University in 1982 and received his master’s degree in political theory from New York University in 1986. Tomasky examined the intensity of partisanship of some of the nation’s leading editorial pages.