March 29, 2024

Why sell North American oil to China?

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 November 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Why sell North American oil to China? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Approval of the Keystone pipeline failed by one vote in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening. Fourteen Democrats joined all 45 Republicans to green light […]

Getting right and wrong in Iraq and Syria

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 November 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Getting right and wrong in Iraq and Syria By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Obama waited until after the election, and until late Friday afternoon before announcing another troop build-up in Iraq. They wouldn’t be combat […]

Why Democrats stayed home

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 November 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Why Democrats stayed home By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Conventional wisdom says Tuesday’s election was a referendum on President Obama. The president agrees, and he said so in his Wednesday press conference. Voters don’t like the gridlock in Washington, […]

GOP Civil War about to begin

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 November 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 GOP Civil War about to begin By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – What has until now been skirmishing between mainstream conservative and far-right Republicans is about to break out into a full-fledged civil war on the […]

Handicapping the Election

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 October 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Handicapping the Election By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – A third of Americans will have already voted by Election Day on Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean the pollsters are having any easier time trying to gage who […]

Segmented news feeds biases and undermines Obama

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 October 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Segmented news feeds biases and undermines Obama By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Whatever happens, it seems President Obama can’t catch a break from the grindingly bad news that has become a media staple. Whether it’s […]

We don’t know the candidates

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 October 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 We don’t know the candidates By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – There are lots of things we don’t yet know about the upcoming election, like what the turnout will be and whether the Republicans will win […]

Objectives, threats, and means

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 October 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Objectives, threats, and means By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Everyone is hoping the shooting of a soldier at a Canadian war memorial is an isolated event, but hope is not a strategy. Authorities in Canada, […]

American parliament

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 October 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 American parliament By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – We could wake up on November 5th with two additional Independents elected to the U.S. Senate and majority control awaiting the outcome of two runoff elections, one in Louisiana […]

Where are the forward observers?

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 October 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 Where are the forward observers? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Months of sustained air attacks in Iraq and Syria have destroyed trucks and artillery pieces as well as oil and other installations, but so far […]