Barry D. Wood

Sometimes a picture says it all.  This June 2018 photo shows then German chancellor Angela Merkel beseeching an unmoved President Donald Trump to be reasonable

WASHINGTON, DC: At the 3 May Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska legendary investor Warren Buffett announced that he was recommending that 62-year-old Greg

Lightheartedly I have proffered an oral quiz to a dozen or so of my fellow Washingtonians. Volunteers came randomly and comprised graduating high school seniors

Beginning in mid-1975, my life evolved into a blur of professional activity.  Implausibly, but in line with what I had hoped for, I was a

Cape Town is a remarkable city that bears a striking resemblance to San Francisco.  Here at the tip of Africa, Cape Town crouches beneath magnificent

PHOENIX, AZ: Leave the freeway and drive a few minutes through sand and cactus and you’ll find the future of advanced manufacturing. Here, north of

Fifty-years ago – 15 days after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency – the Danish freighter Diana Skou slid away from the Brooklyn Army Terminal pier

There can be no democracy without a free press.  Thomas Jefferson had it right two centuries ago when he said that “self-government is not possible

Always the huckster, presidential candidate Donald Trump online offers “a limited edition, official Trump watch” priced from $499 to $100,000.” Swiss-made, bearing the word “Trump”

It was a master stroke by Democratic party leaders to dump octogenarian Joe Biden, replacing him with Kamala Harris as candidate for president.  It was