Has American politics fallen into a state of dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate journalist and political commentator Michael Tomasky's examination into the origins of our polarized nation. In his latest book, If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved, Tomasky offers an agenda for how we can help fix our broken political system.

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Michael Tomasky is a columnist, political commentator, journalist, and author. He is the editor in chief of Democracy: a Journal of Ideas, a special correspondent for The Daily Beast, and a contributor to The New York Times and the The New York Review of Books. 

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