IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec 29, 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective                                                                      America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Unfit, but not unqualified By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Four Confederate generals served as generals in the Spanish-American War: Matthew Butler (US Sen. 1877-95) and West Pointers Fitzhugh Lee (Virginia […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec 21, 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective                                                                      America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 They can longer want what they wanted By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Abortion, no longer a federal right, is increasingly becoming a state right, the unintended legacy of Senate Minority […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec 15, 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective                                                                      America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Irony enters the fray By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Irony has entered the fray, and as is often the case with irony it is not only unintentional, but also not […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec 8, 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective                                                                      America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Their pit bull By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — The lawyer/president analogy is explanatory. People choose an attorney for one reason: to win. They want a pit bull in their corner. […]