Gail Collins and Bret Stephens: A Last Conversation
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Aaron Retica: I'm Aaron Retica, an editor at large in the Opinion section of The New York Times.
In this job I work a lot with a number of our columnists and one of the great joys, really delights, of my life here is that I get to work on something we called The Conversation, which is a weekly dialogue between two of our columnists — Gail Collins, who is standing in for liberal America, and Bret Stephens, who is standing in for conservative America.
It has appeared every Monday morning and is a crucial part of the agenda-setting and thought world of the Opinion section.
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