IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 April 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The soul of the GOP died with John McCain By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — Can mainstream Republicans recapture their party from a Trump-led cult? Their prospects look bleak. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, can’t do […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 April 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Return of the unions and the middle class By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — For decades, the economic imbalance in America has increasingly widened to a degree not witnessed in more than a century. This […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 March 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Trickle-up economics By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — We tried trickle-down economics and the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and the middle class became fewer. It’s time for trickle-up economics — again.           […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4 March 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Tyranny of the minority By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON — It is one of the Constitution’s flaws that the Senate through its grossly unbalanced representation, filibuster, and the collateral impact on the Electoral College was […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 18 February 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Impoverishing wages By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON— Lawmakers are negotiating over a $15 minimum wage and if it should be included in the coronavirus relief package now before Congress. What is there to negotiate? This […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 January 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 A question of allegiances By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – Members of Congress, as well as Vice President Mike Pence, are not paranoid; “They” really are coming after them. But who are “They?” Nearly half […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 January 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Why impeachment? Why now? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – Impeachment of President Donald Trump will go forward, not as a gesture nor for posterity, but because a clear and present danger exists and can […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 January 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Who is to blame for the Day of Shame? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – There is never a point in calling a bully a bully, a liar a liar, a narcissist a narcissist, a […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 January 2021 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 A New Year new look at the Constitution By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – It is a new year, and, thanks to the outgoing president, it is time to take a new look at our […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 November 2020 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The fall and rise of the middle class By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – A strong middle class provides the cornerstone of American democracy, but it was hit hard by the Great Recession of 2008-09 […]