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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 February 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The mouth that keeps on giving By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — Democrats could not have a better ally than former President Donald Trump. He makes the case that returning Republicans to power would mean […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 January 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Putin’s Krushchev moment By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing his Krushchev moment. In 1962, when Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev placed nuclear missiles in Cuba and was compelled to remove […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13 January 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 A Democratic scenario By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — Conventional wisdom says the Republicans will take back the House in the November midterm elections and have a better than even chance to win control of […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 January 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 From radio charlatans to cable charlatans By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — By the 1930s the relatively recent invention of the radio had become ubiquitous, and as so often has occurred both good and evil […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 December 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 He speaks softly but fails to wield a big stick By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — A year into his presidency, Joe Biden faces a leadership crisis. Leaders are paid to investigate and anticipate. They […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 December 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 All you’ve got By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — A man walks into a bank and says, “I want to borrow some money.” The banker replies, “We are lending money at 1.5 percent per year […]