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James Fallows

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James Fallows is a longtime correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. He has reported for the magazine from around the world since the late 1970s, including extended assignments in China, Japan, and Southeast Asia, and within the United States in Texas, Washington state, and California. He has written 12 books and won the American Book Award, the National Magazine Award, and a documentary Emmy. He has also done extensive commentary on National Public Radio.
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…
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,…
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…
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
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 — 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,…
Students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science doing a historical re-enactment in the town cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi, in 2014.
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  • K-12

Budget Challenges at a Remarkable Mississippi School

  • James Fallows
  • June 4, 2016
An update on what's happening at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.
The lab floor at FirstBuild in Louisville, Kentucky, where a big corporation is trying to harness the spirit of the startup Maker Movement to create better products, companies, and jobs.
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  • Economic Development

Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 1, the Tools Revolution

  • James Fallows
  • June 1, 2016
Just like the internet before it, the Maker Movement is revolutionizing manufacturing, with implications for startups and jobs.
Deb Fallows wearing graduation gown.
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  • Colleges & Universities

Deb Fallows at the University of Redlands

  • James Fallows
  • April 24, 2016
During our West Coast travels for American Futures reports in the winter of 2014-2015, my wife Deb and I were based at the University of Redlands, in southern California. From…
The Dequindre Cut in Detroit, one of the civic projects that has just won support in a nationwide competition sponsored by the Knight Foundation.
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  • Citizen Engagement

Awards for Civic Engagement: 37 New Examples

  • James Fallows
  • April 13, 2016
A big question in national politics this year is what exactly “engagement” means, beyond showing up at rallies. As Yoni Appelbaum pointed out last week, Donald Trump supporters are notable for…
Postcard of the old Clyde Iron Works in its prime, via Perfect Duluth Day.
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  • Economic Development

Paradise Duluth

  • James Fallows
  • April 9, 2016
As part of the unfolding saga of start-up businesses as the crucial creators of new jobs, and of particular start-ups like craft breweries (along with tech incubators, arts companies, manufacturing “maker…
Citizen University Website Banner.
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  • Economic Development

Wichita, Salisbury, Knoxville, Seattle: Revival Updates

  • James Fallows
  • April 8, 2016
Here are some recent developments that are related to the “America Is Putting Itself Back Together” argument in our March issue. They’re also connected to the subject of my post earlier…
Getting a 22-ounce bomber filled with Wren House IPA, brewed in Phoenix, at Flowers Craft Beer & Wine in Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row district two days ago.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

On National Beer Day, Craft Brewers Improving Water, and Life, in More Ways Than One

  • James Fallows
  • April 7, 2016
Thanks to my Atlantic colleague Kathy Gilsinan for the reminder of why today is different from all other days: It’s National Beer Day! Congratulations to beer. Last week I did an item about the reasons…

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