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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…

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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

Desert Senita Health Center in Ajo, Arizona.

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Health & Well-Being

Finding Health Care in the Desert

Deborah Fallows
June 13, 2016

With the closest hospital 100 miles away, Ajo, Arizona's Desert Senita Health Center acts as the region's clinic

9th grade student Franke Le, left, telling other students about the advanced manufacturing equipment on which he had already received a special-proficiency certificate, at Indian Springs High School in San Bernardino, California, last year.

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Economic Development

The Surprising Problem With U.S. Manufacturing: It’s Creating Too Many Jobs

James Fallows
June 11, 2016

An ongoing theme of our reports from “career technical” schools—like this high school in Georgia and this community college in Mississippi and these high schools and tech-training centers in California and South Carolina, and these colleges in Vermont and Maine—is that for…

Americans don’t make things any more? Tell it to (from left) First Joe, Pauly, and Capt. Jerry, who are building the Mon Tiki Largo on Montauk, Long Island. You can’t make a 100-foot boat with 3-D printers, yet.

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Economic Development

The Maker Revolution: What It Has Changed, and What It Hasn’t — Yet

James Fallows
June 10, 2016

What It Has Changed, and What It Hasn't â€” Yet

At FirstBuild, now owned by Haier, in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Economic Development

Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 2, Agility

James Fallows
June 9, 2016

Business are finding that "makerspaces" enable them to reduce what's known as the mind-to-market gap: how long it takes for an idea to become a thing on a shelf.

Latest cohort of Highway 1 fellows — hardware entrepreneurs at Liam Casey’s startup center in San Francisco.

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Economic Development

‘Mr. China’ on Making Things in America

James Fallows
June 8, 2016

Following this earlier post about the significance of the Maker Movement, and before an upcoming report on an unusual and significant maker/startup space in Louisville, I want to mention a very interesting WSJ interview by…

Campus of the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, where MSMS is housed.

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K-12

‘The Last Best Hope for Public STEM Education in Mississippi’

James Fallows
June 7, 2016

Over the years my wife Deb and I have frequently mentioned the remarkable Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. You can read about some of its successes in posts collected here,…