Kamala Harris Surprises Everyone
Has everything totally switched?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
I’ve always tried to use humor to get readers interested in the political issues of the day — or in the current era, maybe just less depressed.
After graduate school in Massachusetts, I moved to Connecticut, where my husband had a job in New Haven. Couldn’t find a regular reporting gig, so I contacted all the weekly and small daily papers to see if they wanted coverage of their state legislators. At the time, there were tons of potential clients — most closed now, alas. I wound up sending several stories a week to each of them, giving me a good background in state government and extremely speedy typing skills.
I moved on to cover local government for United Press International and New York Newsday. I joined The Times in 1995 as an editorial board member, then columnist, then editorial page editor. I left that wonderful job to go back to writing columns. I’ve also written a bunch of books, most on women’s history.
Most politicians and other sources I’ve dealt with have been aware of The Times’s strong honor code, and I can’t, to be honest, remember any unethical offer that was even vaguely tempting.
Don’t think I’ve ever sought out any personal favors from politicians, except an ongoing attempt to get the city to fix the broken sidewalk on my block. And I’m proud to say that after years of effort, the cracks are still there.
Has everything totally switched?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
It’s a whole new era in presidential politics. Right?
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
One of the great joys of a long marriage is how the personal and pragmatic moosh together.
By Gail Collins
What are the alternatives? And about those Republicans …
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
This time with actual presidents.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
Florida can keep him.
By Gail Collins
Americans are owed better from the Democratic Party.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
A debate before the debate.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
The last half-dozen or so presidential wives have run the gamut.
By Gail Collins
Here’s looking at you, Hunter.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens