February 8, 2025

The issues

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 […]

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 […]