IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 January 2020 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The most Super Tuesday ever By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –Super Tuesday began as a Southern regional primary designed by the Democratic Party to allow more moderate candidates to emerge who could win the White […]
presider in chief
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 January 2020 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The presider in chief By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The impeachment trial’s wild card is Chief Justice John Roberts, and how he interprets his role as presiding officer. The Constitution says the Senate has […]
predictions for 2020
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 December 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Contrarian predictions for 2020 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – We capsulize the essence of contrarian theory with the following: “Most people are wrong most of the time; otherwise most people would be millionaires.” Granted, […]
is mass hysteria
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 December 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Populism is mass hysteria By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Britain’s 2016 vote for Brexit foreshadowed Donald Trump’s election later that year, confirming a poisonous populism in both British and American politics. Populism is […]
s slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 December 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Trump’s slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Donald Trump won the White House with 46.1 percent of the vote, and he hasn’t expanded his base of support. Yet he has an […]
steadfast ally
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 December 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 One steadfast ally By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – When French President Macron called NATO “brain dead,” the brain he was talking about was U.S leadership. Donald Trump is the first president in American history […]
could bankrupt Trump in a Moscow minute
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 November 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Putin could bankrupt Trump in a Moscow minute By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – It was a breakthrough week in the House inquiry into potentially impeachable behavior by President Trump. The […]
Xi s flame flicker and die strategy
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 November 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Xi’s flame, flicker, and die strategy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – As America increasingly looks inward, both from the president’s America First doctrine and the escalating impeachment investigation, another leader […]
s flame flicker and die strategy
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 November 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Xi’s flame, flicker, and die strategy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – As America increasingly looks inward, both from the president’s America First doctrine and the escalating impeachment investigation, another leader […]
self-perpetuating system
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 November 2019 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Our self-perpetuating system By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – One little-noticed but important outcome for Democrats in the latest election results is the impact on the redrawing of congressional districts that […]