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 […]
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ignorant are at fault
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 December 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Only the ignorant are at faultBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Ignorance is a choice. Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling has it right when calling upon the president and other elected Republicans to stop claiming without evidence that the presidential […]
Pentagon Purge
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 November 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932The Pentagon PurgeBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – A favorite parlor game in recent months has been to guess what President Donald Trump might do if he lost reelection. Now we know what we know but we know not all. […]
Cassidy and Rupert
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 […]
for a Goldwater moment
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 November 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Time for a Goldwater momentBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – We need a Goldwater moment. We need someone with stature to march into the White House and tell Donald Trump to stop doing what he is doing the same way […]
and the right side of history
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 […]
A solution to America s Third World crime rate
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 September 2025WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932A solution to America’s Third World crime rateBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The Charlie Kirk assassination once again exposes the violent nature of our nation. High crime rates, school shootings, and political assassinations set America apart from […]
Supreme Court’s Godfather
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 October 2020WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932The Supreme Court’s GodfatherBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The real story isn’t President Trump’s outlandish efforts to recreate 2016 with rallies that will win him the White House. It’s the Supreme Court, and what a new conservative majority will […]
Four senators in the breach
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 August 2025WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932Four senators in the breach?By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans are not pleased with what they are seeing and not saying above a whisper. They are tired of defending President Trump’s off-again, on-again trade wars, his […]
Zelenskyy Options
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 August 2025WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNDToday’s Events in Historical PerspectiveAmerica’s Longest-Running Column Founded 1932The Zelenskyy optionsBy Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – In the wake of President Donald Trump’s brief meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is returning to the United States on Monday in the company of […]