Barry D. Wood

WASHINGTON: I’ve been asked multiple times in the past week whether the January 6th invasion of the US Capitol undermines American democracy.  My reply is

Back in 2000, it took five weeks until the winner of the tied presidential election was known. George W. Bush triumphed over Democrat Al Gore

SUNNYVALE, CA:  Daily life in the Silicon Valley remains heavily disrupted eight months after the coronavirus arrived on America’s west coast. At Apple headquarters in

In September the long-delayed Frank Gehry-designed Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial was dedicated in downtown Washington.   Understated and situated in a park-like setting across from

In 1980, Shenzhen was an unimportant fishing village adjacent to Hong Kong’s new territories. Its population was 30 000. Today, Shenzhen on a per capita

Kalamazoo, Michigan: You have to be blind to believe the US economy is rebounding sharply from the coronavirus lockdown. There is no V-shaped recovery. At

Alistair Cooke said in one of his Letters from America (which was broadcast on the BBC for 58 years) that it was a cruel mistake

American Dispatch is a new monthly feature from Barry Wood, an American journalist who for over two decades was the chief economics correspondent for Voice