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Margaret Carlson is an American journalist and a columnist for Bloomberg News. She is best known for being the first woman columnist at TIME magazine . Carlson joined Time in January 1988 from The New Republic , where she was managing editor; in 1994, she became the first woman columnist in the magazine's history. Carlson covered four presidential elections for TIME, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg News where she writes a column. Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire magazine, editor of Washington Weekly, and editor of the Legal Times of Washington. She writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times , and was a panelist for 15 years on CNN's The Capital Gang . Carlson earned a B.A. in English from Penn State University and a law degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. She has one daughter and lives in Washington, D.C.
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