Michael Tomasky

@mtomasky

Joe Biden is making some necessary defenses of democracy abroad. I can’t help wishing he’d make them more forcefully here at home.

The upper body of Congress has become a colossal wreck where democracy goes to die.

The former president is learning that the old, responsibility-evading tricks he used as a private-sector scammer don’t work once you’ve held public office.

The prospect of a Democratic wave in the midterm elections this fall recalls the moment, nearly 50 years ago, when a group of young, liberal lawmakers swept into Congress on a mission to overturn the status quo. What can today's Democrats learn from the historic class of 1974?

There are plenty of non-deplorables in middle America. The Democrats need to learn how to embrace them.