IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 May 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Our temporary economic problems are temporary By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — The cable news pundits are forecasting more bad news as the war in Ukraine is holding up critical grain shipments. But this is not […]
Category: Political Commentary
prospects just upended
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 May 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Midterm prospects just upended By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — What was conventional wisdom just vanished in the stroke of a pen. The surprise that was not a surprise just happened and the earth moved. […]
and where the war will be decided
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 April 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Why and where the war will be decided By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Russia led with its tank-laden chin to take Kyiv and was stopped cold by Ukrainians armed with tank-killing drones and shoulder-fired […]
S and NATO betting on a Ukrainian victory
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 April 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 U.S. and NATO betting on a Ukrainian victory By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — The war in Ukraine enters a new phase with Russia bearing down on the disputed Donbas region. Neither side […]
the party in power
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 April 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Why the party in power may stay in power may stay in power By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — No one can say with any certainty what will happen in the November midterms. The political […]
and rhetoric
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 March 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Meaning and rhetoric By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Meaning is often missed in rhetoric. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Joe Biden have rightly been hailed for their efforts to thwart Russia’s […]
Five Scenarios for Failure
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 March 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Putin’s five scenarios for failure By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy and his people are winning. Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin is losing. His war against Ukraine is all in the […]
Incompetence
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4 March 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Brutal incompetence By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Ukrainians are mounting a strong fight against the invading Russian Army, forcing aggressor, Vladimir Putin, to rethink and recalculate what he thought would be an easy invasion […]
Putin’s Praetorian Guards
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 February 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Castle NATO and Putin’s Praetorian Guards By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — After weeks of what we assumed was a bluff, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. But bluffing requires rational thought, […]
cult of Trump will fail
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 February 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 How the cult of Trump will fail By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — Pundits and historians alike wonder how the Trump cult will come to an end, and the answer is that Trump himself will […]