Margaret Carlson is an American journalist, political pundit, and an opinion columnist for Bloomberg News.
She subsequently taught third grade in Watts, Los Angeles, California, before joining Nader's raiders.
After law school, she was briefly a Federal Trade Commission lawyer under Michael Pertschuk, until the Carter administration ended.
[3][11] Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire, editor of the short-lived Washington Weekly, and was a reporter and member of the editorial staff for the Washington-based national weekly newspaper "Legal Times."
Carlson covered four presidential elections for Time, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg News where she writes a column.