IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 July 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The issues By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Presidential elections are about the future, and President Biden for the next six months will do everything he can to help his vice […]
Month: July 2024
Four scenarios for an unconventional Democratic convention
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 18 July 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Four scenarios for an unconventional Democratic convention By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – These are unprecedented times in American presidential politics. An obviously diminished President Biden is recovering from Covid while former […]
Coney Barrett and the power of independence
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 July 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Amy Coney Barrett and the power of independence By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — The power of judicial independence is reappearing. The most junior member of the Supreme Court, Justice Amy […]
An Exercise in Calculated Speculation
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 July 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 An exercise in calculated speculation By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Whitmer/Beshears or Beshear/Whitmer may well emerge as the Democratic dream ticket. Gretchen Whitmer is the popular twice-elected governor of critical Midwest […]