IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 April 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The four faces of Trump By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The truth is that no one knows what motivates President Trump and, as a result, what he could do, might do, […]
Category: Political Commentary
He sent in the clowns
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 April 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 He sent in the clowns By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Trump sent in the clowns, and the circus has begun with the most unqualified, incompetent, inexperienced, immature group of presidential […]
Enough is enough
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 March 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Enough is enough By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Are we in a constitutional crisis? The answer turns entirely on how far President Trump wants to take his assertion that the executive […]
What will it finally take
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 March 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 What will it finally take? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, and Pres. Donald Trump appears to be doing likewise, taking […]
Pres Donald McKinley
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 March 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Pres. Donald McKinley By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – A little history can be a bad thing, and Pres. Donald Trump’s little glimpse of history appears to be limited to the 1897-1901 […]
The Keystone and Catastrophe
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 March 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The Keystone and Catastrophe By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The following analysis is ominous, far from a worst case, and hopefully wrong. For most of its history Europe has been […]
Why
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 February 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Why? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The elephant in the room that few people seem to address is a single word: Why? Why is Pres. Donald Trump so subservient to […]
Trump’s Brumaire
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 February 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Trump’s Brumaire By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – A triple civil war is brewing, and a strongman is standing in the wings ready to take control. No, this is not Napoleon’s […]
Yes He Can
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 February 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Yes, he can By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – There are major fault lines in the Constitution and our government based upon it, and thanks to Donald Trump those fault lines are […]
L tat c est moi
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 February 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 L’État, c’est moi By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –Louis XIV of France, the absolute monarch known as the Sun King, said, possibly apocryphally, “L’État, c’est moi,” literally, “The state, it is me,” or more commonly, […]