IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 August 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The power of lies By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – It’s not news that Donald Trump lies. It is why he lies, and the historical echoes of those lies. Stephanie Grisham, […]
Author: Douglas Cohn & Eleanor Clift
Trump his Mini Me and their formula for failure
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 August 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Trump, his Mini Me, and their formula for failure By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The idea that a campaign based upon mantras and meanness would continue to play well with […]
Confronting the architect and arsenal of terrorism
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 August 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Confronting the architect and arsenal of terrorism By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The U.S. is massing naval and air forces as well as boots-on-the-ground air-defense forces to deter Iranian and […]
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 […]
If not him who
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 June 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 If not him, who? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — The sad reality revealed in the first presidential debate of 2024 to stunned viewers, foreign and domestic, is that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been overtaken […]
and government make poor bedfellows
IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2024 Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Religion and government make poor bedfellows By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — The Founding Fathers thought it was settled with James Madison, the principal author of what is known as “the Establishment clause,” declaring, […]
one believes them
IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2024 Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 No one believes them By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Liberals have been griping about Justice Clarence Thomas for more than 30 years, since before he was elevated to the Supreme Court with the […]