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Downtown Dodge City, Kansas.
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  • Governance

What’s (Less) the Matter With Kansas

  • James Fallows
  • August 5, 2016
This week’s election news out of Kansas was the defeat in the GOP primaries of some of the hardest-line Tea Party Republicans, at both the Congressional and local- and state-legislative level. The…
Students move between classes at Dodge City High School in Dodge City, Kansas, on April 4, 2007. More than 70 percent of the students at the school are Hispanic.
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  • K-12
  • Refugees

Educating Migrant Children in Dodge City

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 3, 2016
"We're a port of entry 1,000 miles from the border."
Dodge City High School Marching Band, "the Pride of Southwest Kansas." (Red Demon Football on Youtube.)
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  • Civic Life

A Different Kind of ‘Trump Nation’ Report

  • James Fallows
  • July 23, 2016
Western Kansas, where Deb and I have spent time over the past month, is the heart of Trump Nation in one sense: Trump and the GOP will almost certainly carry…
The Pride of Southwest Kansas: Dodge City High School's marching band.
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  • K-12

Dodge City’s New Frontier

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 23, 2016
A high school in the famed Kansas town is embracing its rapidly changing demographics.
Hilda, who received our first delivery of the day.
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  • Civic Life

New Pioneers in Southwest Kansas

  • Deborah Fallows
  • July 13, 2016
Mexican immigrants on the Great Plains try to build new lives, with hope and help.
Ernestor De La Rosa, in front of the city library in Dodge City, Kansas.
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  • Economic Development

The Story of Ernestor

  • James Fallows
  • July 8, 2016
Dodge City, Kansas relies on undocumented immigrants—from meatpacking workers to the city's assistant finance director.
This is not the controller I spoke with last week at Denver’s Centennial airport, because this man is working that same day in the control tower at LAX. But this gives you an idea of what controllers are looking at and dealing with. (Bob Riha Jr / Reuters)
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  • Aviation

From the Air Traffic Controller’s Perspective

  • James Fallows
  • June 30, 2016
Two days ago I mentioned the unflappable, multi-tasking and multi-dimensional competence with which an air-traffic controller at Denver’s Centennial airport handled a sudden shift in winds, and the resulting complete re-organization in…
About to land one week ago, on Runway 14 in Dodge City, Kansas.
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  • Aviation

View From the Right Seat

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 28, 2016
During our more than 50,000 miles of flight for our American Futures project, I’ve sat in the “right seat” of our Cirrus SR22. That’s the official term for my spot in…
The airspace that was the subject of a coordinated aerial ballet two days ago. The magenta line shows where pilots thought they would be going. The orange line shows where they ended up.
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  • Aviation

The Air Traffic Ballet

  • James Fallows
  • June 28, 2016
During our travels Deb has often mentioned our interest in, and nearly-all-times admiration for, the Air Traffic Controllers with whom we deal. One of her early posts, “Say Souls on Board,”…
Feedlot enclosures on the east side of Dodge City, Kansas.
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  • Economic Development

What Rural Economies Look Like From Above

  • James Fallows
  • June 26, 2016
In Kansas, the advent of an energy industry is inscribing itself on the physical landscape, adding wind farms to wheat farms.
Mayor Kevin Heeke of Spearville, Kansas (far left), with Atlantic interview and video team yesterday (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Civic Life

A Note About Trumpism, From the ‘Real America’

  • James Fallows
  • June 25, 2016
For the past week my wife Deb and I have been in western Kansas — Dodge City mainly, also Garden City, briefly Spearville. There will be a lot more to…
Activity into and out of Dodge City, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, out the right side of the plane looking west as we neared a landing on runway 14 on a boiling hot day.
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  • Economic Development

The Multi-Dimensional Reality of the Nation, vs. the Flattened Reality of National Politics

  • James Fallows
  • June 22, 2016
My wife Deb and I have started out on the road again—northern Texas recently, now western Kansas, with a diversion to Colorado and then far southern Texas once again. Reports…
Man riding bike with his arm in the air.
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  • Health & Well-Being

A Good Start: Bobby’s Story

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 18, 2016
One of my favorite features of our American Futures project is the occasional serendipity of crossing the path of some surprising, remarkable person. Like Jerrie Mock, the Columbus, Ohio, housewife who was the…
The twists of the White River, namesake of Whitewater, in Arkansas.
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  • Aviation

America by Air: Whitewater

  • James Fallows
  • June 18, 2016
In one way or another, all Clinton-era “scandals” trace back to Whitewater. That was the late-1970s Arkansas real estate deal that prompted an investigative crusade by the NYT during Bill Clinton’s presidential run in…
Graphic from the Maker City Playbook.
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  • Economic Development

More on the Public Role in Fostering Private Innovation

  • James Fallows
  • June 18, 2016
A few days ago I argued that the Maker Movement finally depends on the ingenuity and effort of private entrepreneurs and of companies large and small — but that these efforts go much faster,…
Collage featuring Alexander Hamilton.
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  • Economic Development

The Maker Movement: If Hamilton Were Around, He Would Be a Fan

  • James Fallows
  • June 16, 2016
If Hamilton Were Around, He Would Be a Fan

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