IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 December 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Faithless electors and faithful justicesBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON – Faithless to whom, faithful to whom? President Donald Trump has tried nearly every means available – short of a military coup – to hang on to power, so, it is […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 July 2022WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Cheney and the right side of historyBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON — The best and the worst of today’s Republican Party were on display in Tuesday’s 1/6 Committee hearing as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., laid out the case for Donald […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 December 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932The Biden BounceBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON – We have been here before: economic collapse; a war; pent-up demand. The era was post-World War II. Today’s war is a fight against a lethal virus that is damaging the economy as […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 July 2022WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932 Walter, Cassidy, and RupertBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON — When CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite turned against the war in Vietnam following the enemy’s Tet Offensive in early 1968, the war was over. Cronkite was the most respected name in […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 January 2021WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Bring back the Fairness DoctrineBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON – There will always be demagogues and lying liars, but they are not to blame for what has befallen America.          In his Inaugural address, Pres. Joe Biden said, “There is truth […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 December 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Trump’s Christmas gift to DemocratsBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON – With his days in power dwindling, President Trump unwittingly handed the Democrats a gift by announcing he wanted to send $2,000 relief checks to all eligible individuals, ridiculing the $600 […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 January 2021WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Br’er Biden’s museBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON – Who is President Joe Biden’s muse? An apparition perhaps. President Lyndon Johnson would not be the first name that comes to mind. LBJ was a larger-than-life, backslapping country boy from Texas, known […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 May 2022WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Tragedy and the CourtBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON — Protect the embryos, not the kids is the mantra of the far-Right, and the far-Right controls the U.S. Supreme Court.          Beginning with the Bush v. Gore decision that determined the presidential election in […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4 February 2021WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932It is never wrong to do rightBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON—We are living in a time of divergent paths when right and wrong vie with truth and consequences, but history will catch up and render its verdict.          In this vein, […]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13 May 2022WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932A microcosm primaryBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift          WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary is a microcosm of the political forces raging across the nation. The winners will set the stage for the battle between mostly mainstream Democrats and Trumpian Republicans who are running […]