Media Failure and Democracy’s Crisis: with Michael Tomasky

Mary speaks with Michael Tomasky about his new novel, Killing Baby Hitler, a darkly comic, genre-bending time-travel story exploring authoritarianism, history, and the dangers of the present. They also examine how corporate media normalized Donald, why the press still struggles to cover him honestly, and what Democrats must do to defend American democracy.

Michael Tomasky is a veteran political journalist, author, and editor of The New Republic and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

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