Michael John Tomasky (born October 13, 1960[1]) is an American columnist, progressive commentator, and author.
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.
He lives with his wife Sarah and daughter (Margot Julianna Kerr Tomasky, born July 6, 2010) in Silver Spring, Maryland.
[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.