Barry D. Wood

Elon Musk overlooks the continent of his birth when he warns of a pending population bust.  Africa’s population is exploding and will double to over

This is a tricky time for the US economy. The global pandemic unleashed in 2020 when a deadly virus escaped from central China caused unprecedented

Have we lost our minds? What is wrong with America? We are increasingly lawless—18-year-olds buy assault weapons, waltz into schools, and unleash terror. In big

During a just completed three-week assignment in Prague, I found both overwhelming support for Ukrainian resistance, and fear that the war could escalate. Blue-and-yellow Ukrainian

BUDAPEST: Hungary is a maze of contradictions. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February the populist Orban government agreed to the first round of EU/US sanctions

The discovery in early March of the polar exploration ship HMS Endurance 106 years after it sank in icy waters near Antarctica brings to life

The greatest danger, says author and Cold War scholar Mary Sarotte, is avoiding inadvertent escalation that could lead to nuclear catastrophe. The challenge is finding

AUSTIN, TX: Investment is pouring into Austin, the state capital and city of two million in the middle of the state.  Texas is attractive to

In October 1979 Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, only two months into the job, stopped in Hamburg en route to the International Monetary Fund meeting

In announcing his company’s name change to Meta, founder Mark Zuckerberg observed that Facebook is one of the most used products in the history of