IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 Apr. 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Is it time to significantly amend the U.S. Constitution? Upgrade the Constitution? Rewrite the Constitution? After all, it was written more than 200 years ago before the advent of cars, […]
Keep your eyes on Belarus; Putin is
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 Apr. 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – While the world is focused on Ukraine and the standoff between the government and Russian separatists, it’s neighboring Belarus that could be next on President Putin’s agenda. The landlocked former […]
Former Justice Stevens takes on the NRA
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 Apr. 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is creating a stir with his new book, “Five Chiefs: A Supreme Memoir,” in which he makes the case for six amendments to […]
Putin Chooses Coercion Over Diplomacy
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 Apr. 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – By putting 250,000 troops on the border of Ukraine, Russian President Putin is inviting Russian separatists within Ukraine to rise up, and that’s what they’re doing. When Putin then warns […]
LBJ put the bully in bully pulpit
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded 1932, America’s Longest-Running Column LBJ put the bully in bully pulpit By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Lyndon B. Johnson put the bully into the bully pulpit. He knew where all the political bodies were buried, and he used that knowledge to cajole, coerce, and convince. When five presidents […]
Mainstream Extreme
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – A book deal is one of the stops on the way to running for president, and Tea Party favorites Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., are the latest to sign contracts for memoirs they hope will set the stage for 2016. The […]
Obamacare and the Difference Between Dissent and Sabotage
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Many opponents are not only rooting for the failure of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, they are doing what they can to make it fail, spreading fear about its impact and telling young people not to sign up. This is conduct unbecoming elected […]
Presidents as Permanent Senators
Washington Merry-Go-Round by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Ex-presidents are an untapped natural resource. It should not be so. Former President Jimmy Carter is making the rounds of the talk shows promoting his latest book, which focuses on human-rights abuses against women worldwide, which are often conducted in the name of religion. Carter […]
Czar Putin
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Addressing an audience of young people in Brussels, President Obama told them never to take for granted the progress toward democracy that’s been made, citing Russia “challenging international rules that only weeks ago seemed self-evident.” First among those rules, Obama said, is don’t go into […]
Obamacare Puts Democrats and Hillary on Defense
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Democrats are in a defensive crouch over Obamacare, and that’s not a winning strategy. Last week’s special election in Florida was a real shock because Democrats had a chance to pick up the seat, and they blew it. Democrats didn’t get out their vote like […]