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Columnist for the New York Times and author of As Texas Goes…: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda
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Gail Collins
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FROM Gail Collins
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Conversation with Gail Collins Gail Collins is a regular columnist for the New York Times. She often writes about politics, and she never lets us forget that Mitt Romney drove to Canada with his dog strapped to the top of the car. Now she's written As Texas Goes… : How the Lone Star State has Hijacked the American Agenda, a cautionary book about Texas and its influence on the rest of the country.
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Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?