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The Most Important Women's Rights Legislation in History? To Some, It Was Just a Joke

William Petrocelli | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sex Discrimination, Civil Rights at of 1964, Gail Collins, Gender Equality, Health Care Debate, Policy Reform, Politics News
William Petrocelli

It's common wisdom among political scientists that any fundamental social change requires a change in public attitude before it can be enshrined into law. Don't rush too fast, experts advise.

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Obama Has Off-The-Record Lunch With Journalists At White House

Politico | Posted by Michael Calderone 03:13 PM | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Andy Rosenthal, Jon Meacham, Cynthia Tucker, David Gergen, Mara Liasson, Howard Fineman, David Brooks, Mike Allen, Obama Journalists, Josh Marshall, Obama Journalists Lunch, Chris Cillizza, Gail Collins, Media News

The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the...

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What is Work? Gail Collins: When Everything Changed

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: History, Women's Rights, Ella Baker, Nora Ephron, Civil Rights, Women's History, Little Brown, Ann Richards, American Women, Feminism, Madeline Kunin, When Everything Changed, Gail Collins, Sncc, New Books, Gail Collins New York Times, Gail Collins When Everything Changed, New York Times, Books, Author Interview, Books News
Sharon Glassman

The women in When Everything Changed are gutsy, goal-setting, game-changing, God-chatting, family-loving individuals who share a belief in Change - and an enduring, if irrational love of sexy shoes.

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When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: The National Organization for Women, Progressive Book Club, American Women, Gender Equality, Book Reviews, Civil Rights, Women's History, Mad Men, Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Draper, Women, Gail Collins When Everything Changed, Books, Mad Men Betty Draper, When Everything Changed, Gail Collins, Books News
Elaine Showalter

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

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The New Normal: Die Childless at Thirty

Joan Williams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Work-Family-Issues, Glass Ceiling, Motherhood, Gender Bias, Work-Life Balance, Gail Collins, Living News
Joan Williams

Men have lost three-fourths of the jobs during the Great Recession, making women's wage work more important than ever. Our public policy hasn't caught up.

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No Slacks In The Office: Gail Collins And Lesley Stahl Relive the Birth of Feminism

wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Relationships, Gender Inequality, Lesley Stahl, Power, Feminism, Gail Collins, Inequality, Gender, Living News

With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...

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Getting Lost in the Land of Twitter

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 10.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ricky Martin, Sarah Silverman, Kim Kardashian, Michael Ian Black, Blackberry, Twitter, The HIlls, Evan Williams, Facebook, Barack Obama, Gail Collins, David Sedaris, Menudo, Comedy News
Meredith C. Carroll

Twitter can now count me among its millions of users. What I'm really supposed to be doing on Twitter though, is still a bit of a mystery to me.

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Members Only: Journalism Clubs

Rory O'Connor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Washington Post, Gail Collins, The Guardian, New York Times Oped Stars, Daily Telegraph, Death of Newspapers, Knowledge Network, Nieman Lab, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to monetize their content. Now they're desperately trying to monetize their journalists.

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Boys Bite Beast

Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Misogyny, Bob Herbert, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Gender, Gail Collins, Living News
Ellen Snortland

Women and girls need men and boys who are willing to articulate the injustice they see toward their mothers, sisters, daughters and wives.

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Spinning Health Care: A Bad Case of Vertigo

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare Apartheid, President Obama, Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, Single Payer, Max Baucus, New York Times, American Medical Association, Washington Post, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Gail Collins, Politics News
Norman Solomon

A "public plan" coexisting with the private health insurance system is inherently reconciled to major inequality in access to health care.

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Jason Linkins

David Brooks: Obama Is Too Busy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Obama Too Busy, Barack Obama, War in Afghanistan, Economic Crisis, Earmark Reform, Gail Collins, New York Times, Politics News

David Brooks recycled one of those weird ideas that's been buzzing around the mediasphere -- that Obama has so much to worry about with the economic crisis that he cannot possibly have any time or energy to expend on anything else.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: February 19. 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newspapers, California, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Michael Steele, New York Times, The Oscars, Octomom, Gail Collins, Politics News

Well, in other news, if you were girding yourself for the coming California Budgetocalypse - it's apparently okay to stand down. At least for a littl...

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Save The Books! Famous People (and Others) Tell You What Books To Buy

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Jon Meacham, Fred Armisen, Kevin Bleyer, Toby Barlow, Peggy Noonan, Books, Steve Ross, Gail Collins, Brian Williams, Dan Abrams, Sean Wilsey, Publishing, Ana Marie Cox, Lesley M. M. Blume, Rachel Sklar, Salman Rushdie, Liesl Schillinger, Raymond Roker, Jeffrey Toobin, Media News
Glynnis MacNicol

I reached out to a few well-known types (Fred Armisen, Brian Williams, Arianna, to name a few) who were generous enough to offer their holiday book recommendations. Let the recommending begin!

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Bailing Out Dan Quayle

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Bail Out, Financial Bailout, Sherrod Brown, Aozora Bank, George W. Bush, Iraq, Colorado, Democratic Party, Wall Street Journal, Jared Polis, William Ford Sr, Aig, Auto Bailout, Mark Fields, Dan Quayle, Ohio, Real Estate, Republican Party, Gail Collins, Detroit, Steve Feinberg, Citigroup, John McCain, Florida, Gm, Alan Mulally, Private Equity, Ford, Condoleeza Rice, Congress, United Steelworkers, Cerberus, Japan, K2, Robert Rubin, Chrysler, Wall Street, Henry Ford, Michigan, Banking, IAP Worldwide Services, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Senate, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Paul Jenkins

The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.

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NYT Columnist: Bush And Cheney Should Resign Now

New York Times | Gail Collins | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Administration, Bush Resign, Dick Cheney, Gail Collins, Politics News

Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously. We have an economy that's crashing and ...

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Red State or Blue State: Your Vote Counts

Kate Kelly | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, John McCain, Red State, Voters, Democrat, Blue States, New York Times, Election, Barack Obama, Voting, Republican, Gail Collins, Politics News
Kate Kelly

If you're a Republican voter in a Democratic-leaning state, or a Democratic voter in Republican territory, is your vote in vain?

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McCain: They Don't Like Him, They Really Don't Like Him

Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Colin Powell, Economy, George W. Bush, Lord of the Rings, Presidential Election, Arizona, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Foreign Policy, Stem Cell Research, Joe Wurzelbacher, Tiger Woods, New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, Environment, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Will Smith, Bob Schieffer, Sport, African-American Issues, LeBron James, Gail Collins, Gollum, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The expectations McCain brought to the race were impossibly high to fulfill, thanks to decades of media cheerleading and his ability to believe in his own hype.

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Sarah's Sentences

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice Presidential Debate, Tina Fey Sarah Palin, David Brooks, Katie Couric, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Tina Fey SNL, The Coversation, Sarah Palin, Gail Collins, Politics News
Jerry Weissman

The New York Times has a feature called "The Conversation" in which two of its star writers, David Brooks, their Republican-leaning columnist, and Gai...

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Memo to American Jews: Listen to Ed Koch and Vote for Barack Obama

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ed Koch Obama, Barack Obama 2008, John McCain, Ed Koch, Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, Gail Collins, American Jews, Jewish Voters, Barack Obama, Ed Koch Endorses Barack Obama, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

The GOP's unprincipled electioneering is likely to become especially ugly in the Jewish community. We are certain to hear Joe Lieberman shamelessly trying to scare elderly Jewish retirees to vote Republican.

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38.4 Million Obama Fans Can't Be Wrong

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, John McCain, Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Gun Control, Gail Collins, Immigration Debate, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Erik Lundegaard

Apparently John McCain doesn't take this presidency business seriously. First he injected Paris Hilton and Britney Spears into the race, now's he's in...

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Obama and Clinton: Does The Mainstream Media Have It Wrong?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Abortion, Michele Obama, Segolene Royal, Hillary Clinton, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Planned Parenthood, Hillary's Debt, Barack Obama, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Gail Collins, Women for Obama, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

The questions about the Obama-Clinton relationship will undoubtedly remain. However, the voices for "party unity" and "taking back the White House" are starting to sound increasingly strong.

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In Which We Disagree With Gail Collins, For Maybe The First Time

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Gail Collins, Hillary Sexism, Hillary Clinton, Media News

I rather agreed with Clark Hoyt's take on Maureen Dowd's campaign columns, as expressed in his Public Editor column of last Sunday. In addressing the ...

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Gail Collins Defends Maureen Dowd Against Public Editor's Accusations

New York Times | Gail Collins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Maureen Dowd Public Editor, Maureen Dowd, Public Editor, Gail Collins Maureen Dowd, Gail Collins, Media News

As a Times columnist, I never envisioned myself writing a letter to a fellow resident of the paper's opinion section. But I feel compelled to respond...

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Courage, Loyality and How The Media Can Act as The Conscience of Us All

Edward J. Murray | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Bernard Kerick, New York Times Op Ed, Courage, Loyality, Scott McClellan Book, Gail Collins, Media News
Edward J. Murray

On the basis of McClellan's book, it can be argued that the present administration is guilty of horrendous crimes -- crimes that could only have been committed because loyalty on the part of individuals.

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NYT Tells Columnists: Say Whatever You Want, Just Don't Endorse!

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Gail Collins, Paul Krugman, New York Times Columnists, Media News

It was a little over a month ago that The New York Times' editorial board urged voters to cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic pri...

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