Barry D. Wood

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