July 11, 2025
Questions come in all shapes and forms. Close-ended questions can be answered yes-no or true-false; open-ended questions call for the provision of multiple details; and leading questions guide the listener to provide a specific answer
July 3, 2025
In March 1992, then presidential candidate Bill Clinton famously told an activist who was heckling him at a rally, “I feel your pain.” Later in the campaign, the Arkansas Governor was able to project that sentiment to a nationwide audience during a presidential town hall debate.
June 20, 2025
When I first joined SCOA years ago, there was an orientation program that included an introduction to Japanese culture and a starter series on Japanese business terminology. I credit those early lessons with teaching me how to deliver my business card in Japanese and providing me with insight into the very different ways Americans and Japanese approach the world around them.
June 13, 2025
This week, D.C. felt like D.C. Not the D.C. of the last five years, but the D.C. BC (before Covid). My metro rides to and from work were crowded; there was a line at Subway for my Wednesday guilty pleasure—the Meatball Marinara “Meal of the Day;” and downtown happy hours on outdoor patios spilled into the sidewalks.
June 6, 2025
I live in Maryland’s 8th congressional district; my condo sits less than 12 miles from the White House, and the district rests almost entirely within Montgomery County.
May 23, 2025
What do Ted Williams, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky all have in common? That they were the greatest players of all time in baseball, basketball, and hockey, respectively? A good guess, but another answer might be that each was also a terrible head coach or general manager.
May 9, 2025
My wife and I just returned from a vacation to the British Virgin Islands (BVI). There we sailed the islands Christopher Columbus “discovered” during his second voyage to the Americas in 1493.
April 25, 2025
There is the seen and the unseen. In Washington, Congress can quite literally be seen in action when it is in session. But when it’s in recess, like it has been for the past two weeks, Capitol Hill is somewhat of a ghost town. In economics one can also find the seen and the unseen
April 11, 2025
It’s spring break in Washington. Climb Capitol Hill, ride the Metro, or visit the National Mall, and you’re bound to see packs of teenagers in identical t-shirts roving the cityscape.
April 4, 2025
The morning of what President Trump referred to as “Liberation Day,” I found myself sitting at a conference room table across from a member of Congress and his Chief of Staff. The meeting had been scheduled several weeks prior as way to provide businesses with a progress report on the status of the reconciliation bill, tax policy, and deregulation.