Articles & News

In his November 6, 2018 opinion column, Jonathan Capehart writes, “Five years ago, James Fallows and his wife Deborah set out on a journey to discover America. The result became…

In his November 6, 2018 opinion column, Noah Smith of Bloomberg News discusses the cash subsidy — $4.5 billion — the state of Wisconsin is paying to Taiwanese electronics manufacturer…

In his article on the Oct. 2018 Broadband Communities Conference, Isfandiyar Shaheen observed five broad themes that support the building of broadband infrastructure in communities. The first, “Broadband is not…

In Craftsmanship Magazine, Barry Yeoman discusses what he calls Durham, NC’s “headline-grabbing renaissance” that includes a former tobacco factory turned apartment complex, a public radio studio, and an artificial river. As…

In his November 1, 2018 column in The Sampson Independent, Jack Stevenson references James and Deborah Fallowses’ writing in Our Towns on the issue of divisiveness. As he quotes, where…

Fort Wayne Magazine Editor John Christensen’s review of Our Towns reports, “The Fallowses’ storytelling skills, combined with their hands-on method of analysis and research, make for a compelling read for anyone…

In his column in the not-for-profit bilingual news organization Voices of Monterey Bay, Peter Hiller describes his recent visits to take a fresh look at his local library — visits spurred…

In his October 25, 2018 column, Southern California News Group reporter David Allen described the Fallowses keynote at an Ontario, CA economic development conference. “Some towns, in the Rust Belt…

In his October 28, 2018 column, Patrick Woodie, president of the N.C. Rural Center, profiled the Fallowses Our Towns travels and their findings that, “despite the national narrative about economically…

In his October 26, 2018 column, Justin Fox references the recurrent themes in Our Towns, which he listened to on a recent cross-country driving trip (download the audiobook). He found…

In the Erie Reader, Nick Warren previews the upcoming 10th annual Jefferson Education Society Global Summit, which includes David Ignatius, Sebastian Gorka, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill Plante and Ann Compton,…

In his October 22, 2018 article for the BYU Wheatley Institution, Ronald K. Mitchell likens our current society’s interactions to an out-of-tune band. He sees Our Towns as presenting a…

In his October 18, 2018 article, Bloomberg’s James Anderson advances one of the main themes in Our Towns, namely that “so much of our country’s most promising and hopeful innovation…

In his October 15, 2018 column, Editor Mark Sappenfield heralds, “The triumph of gray,” with the thought, based on the Christian Science Monitor’s cover story this week that, “Perhaps the answer to…

In his 9-28-18 article in Governing, senior editor Alan Ehrenhalt discusses in the Fallowes’ Our Towns and Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak’s The New Localism that, he maintains, both make…