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Michael Tomasky Editor
GuardianAmerica.com

Michael Tomasky is the editor of GuardianAmerica.com, the U.S.-based Web site of The Guardian newspaper of England. As such, he is overseeing the launch of a Web site that will serve some 250,000 unique U.S. visitors a day, providing original coverage of American politics, culture and general news, and combining that with material from the Guardian’s global correspondents and critics to create a site tailored to the interests of American readers.

From 2003 to 2006, he was the editor of The American Prospect, a leading liberal opinion journal, and he remains a contributing editor of that magazine. While editor of the Prospect, he wrote a highly influential essay on the Democrats and the “common good,” which received front-page attention in The New York Times. In spring 2003, he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

He contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books, where he has written recently on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore and James Baker. Before moving to Washington in 2003, he lived for many years in New York, where he was a political columnist most recently for New York magazine. He is the author of two books, “Left for Dead,” on the intellectual collapse of the American left after the 1960s, and “Hillary’s Turn,” about Sen. Clinton’s 2000 campaign. In addition to the aforementioned publications, his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Dissent, GQ and many others.

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	Editor GuardianAmerica.com Michael Tomasky is the editor of GuardianAmerica.com, the U.S.-based Web site of The Guardian newspaper of England. As such, he is overseeing the launch of a Web site that will serve some 250,000 unique U.S. visitors a day, providing original coverage of American politics, culture and general news, and combining that with material from the Guardian’s global correspondents and critics to create a site tailored to the interests of American readers. From 2003 to 2006, he was the editor of The American Prospect, a leading liberal opinion journal, and he remains a contributing editor of that magazine. While editor of the Prospect, he wrote a highly influential essay on the Democrats and the “common good,” which received front-page attention in The New York Times. In spring 2003, he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books, where he has written recently on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore and James Baker. Before moving to Washington in 2003, he lived for many years in New York, where he was a political columnist most recently for New York magazine. He is the author of two books, “Left for Dead,” on the intellectual collapse of the American left after the 1960s, and “Hillary’s Turn,” about Sen. Clinton’s 2000 campaign. In addition to the aforementioned publications, his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Dissent, GQ and many others.