IMMEDIATE RELEASE 18 March 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Musk, Murdoch, and America’s oligarchy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – If you were one of the many millions who tuned into the Super Bowl, you witnessed Elon Musk and Rupert […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 March 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Prelogar rising By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Prelogar is a name few knew, but many soon will. In the eternal search for rising stars, hers is shining bright. For […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 Feb 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The inflation fallacy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Ask the person on the street; ask your broker; ask your senator; ask Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ask: What […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 February 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Register and regulate within the Second Amendment By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — The Constitution states: “No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 Jan 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Does everybody do it? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — The revelation that Vice President Mike Pence had classified documents in his home in Indiana rocketed through the political world on […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 Jan 2023 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 No antecedent in Ukraine By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Perhaps there is some overriding secret reason for President Biden’s reluctance to send Ukraine the military equipment it needs, but such […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 Dec 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 He who followed Trump’s playbook By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Where did George Santos come from? The 34-year-old won a congressional seat in New York as a Republican based on […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 Dec 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The Trump replacement By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has not said much about Ukraine, at least not recently. He is probably trying to figure out […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13 Dec 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Slow-walking arms to Ukraine By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift                      WASHINGTON — From the start of the Russo-Ukraine War, the Biden administration and NATO have slow-walked assistance to Ukraine. Initially, it was assumed […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 Nov 2022 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Everyone comes to the Hotel Palats By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift           KHERSON, UKRAINE — Everyone comes to the Palats, a four-story boutique hotel in the heart of Mykolaiv and temporary quarters for an eclectic assortment of […]