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, […]
Trump’s gift to Putin
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 January 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Trump’s gift to Putin By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –President Trump’s fondness for Russian President Vladimir Putin is well documented. He has called him a “genius,” and took the Russian leader’s […]
McCain’s Courage
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 18 January 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 McCain’s courage By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –Where is Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., when we need him? Where are the giants of the Senate, the proven heroes, the men and women […]
America First Means America Last
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 January 2025 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 America First Means America Last By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – In his victory speech after winning reelection, Speaker Mike Johnson intemperately spoke in his temperate tone: “The path of prosperity […]
The Fed Senate and Business send a message
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 December 2024 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 The Fed, Senate, and Business send a message By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON –The Dow tumbled eleven hundred points on one single day the week before Christmas when Chairman Jerome Powell […]