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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.

Bryon Tonnis, Karen Tonnis, Laura Mullen, and Colin Mullen, the founders of Bent Paddle Brewing company in Duluth, Minnesota. Their company’s story illustrates the economic patterns that Jeff Alworth is describing.

Breweries & Distilleries

Craft Breweries: No, I’m Not Kidding, They Actually Matter in Civic Development

James Fallows
March 31, 2016

If you’re going to subscribe to only one magazine — well, really you should be subscribing to more! But you could start with The Atlantic, and then move on to include, as…

Downtown Fresno mural

Economic Development

From Fresno to Duluth to Allentown, with Montana in Between

James Fallows
March 30, 2016

Here are some generally positive developments from places we’ve visited in our travels. Fresno: This evening Fresno, California, held its big “State of Downtown” event. You can see the details here.…

Skyline of Salt Lake City Utah.

Economic Development

Checklists for Success, from Knoxville to Salt Lake City, and Beyond

James Fallows
March 30, 2016

We’re back to followup on my March issue story about local-level civic coherence, even at a time of the worst national-level dysfunction in at least a century. Here goes: 1. Salt…

The Obamas in Havana today. If you keep reading, you’ll see the connection.

Economic Development

Startups Creating Jobs in the United States, Around the World — and Now in Cuba

James Fallows
March 20, 2016

Let’s get back to some positive news — actually, let’s connect the positive news I’m about to give, to the drear of domestic U.S. political news that consumes us all.…

Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, last year. No, this story is not about the Ohio primaries!

Economic Development

Shifting Back to Better News: What’s Happening in Ohio

James Fallows
March 15, 2016

A big theme of our March issue cover stories (main story here; “11 signs of success” checklist; “Library Card“) is that one the bleakest aspect of modern America is the one…

Nighttime photo of the Liberty Bridge, over the Reedy River, in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. This was the focus of a long struggle to revive the city’s downtown.

Economic Development

With the PBS NewsHour, in Greenville, SC

James Fallows
March 9, 2016

Last night the PBS NewsHour ran a 10-minute segment hosted by Judy Woodruff and shot in Greenville, South Carolina, where Deb and I have visited frequently and reported extensively over the past few…

FDR signing the G.I. Bill into law in 1944. That’s what a national-level effort looks like.

Civic Life

Local Success, National Paralysis: How Does it Balance Out?

James Fallows
March 4, 2016

The GOP/Fox last night was genuinely depressing. Donald Trump has brought the other candidates down to his level, in the process of demolishing the Republican party. No living American has…

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

Civic Life

Hmmm, This Sounds Like Something I Would Agree With

James Fallows
March 3, 2016

From Thomas Friedman in the NYT, emphasis added: … what will be required to produce resilient citizens and communities [is] forcing a politics that is much more of a hybrid of left…

Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now" Matthew Greenleaf, Saniyyah Thomas, Jennica Billins, Michael Segura, Jorge Heredia, and Fabian Torres: the young people who think they can save a bankrupt, low-hope city (Deborah Fallows)

Economic Development

Talking About a Second Gilded Age, With ‘On Point’ Listeners

James Fallows
February 23, 2016

Two updates today: 1) On Point. I spoke today with Tom Ashbrook of WBUR and his On Point audience, about my contention (in the current cover story) that even in this time of wage…

Illustration by Adam Voorhes and Robin Finlay.

Civic Life

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

James Fallows
February 22, 2016

Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.

Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop, showing one of its products (a lamp) to Deb Fallows, at the TechShop San Francisco work space. Sites like these, designed to foster start-up manufacturers, are becoming more widespread.

Economic Development

‘The Looming Entrepreneurial Boom’: Kauffman Weighs In

James Fallows
February 22, 2016

Brand-new companies play a surprisingly important part in progress toward fuller employment. A new report says that the prospects for start-ups may be improving.

Protest march in Columbus, Mississippi.

Civic Life

A Police Shooting Case in Mississippi

James Fallows
February 22, 2016

Over the past few years we’ve mentioned many of the positive developments underway in the three counties of northern Mississippi (Lowndes, Clay, and Oktibbeha) collectively known as the “Golden Triangle.”…

One of the founders of the successful and stylish Loll furniture company, at the the headquarters in Duluth. The company’s story is one I describe in the magazine article and talked about today on CNN.

Economic Development

Fareed Zakaria GPS, and Another Traveler’s Views

James Fallows
February 21, 2016

This morning I was on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS program on CNN, talking about the project behind my current Atlantic cover story. A YouTube version of the full show is here; a one-minute out-take, in which…

Old-style civic engagement!

Civic Life

What Presidential Campaigns Show About Civic Fiber

James Fallows
February 14, 2016

The end of my current story in the magazine, on “How America Is Putting Itself Back Together,” explores the contrast between what I’m describing as healthy civic society at the…

A few of the places we have been to so far. (The Atlantic)

Travel

‘American Futures’ Master List: Some of the Hundreds of Places We Would Like to Go

James Fallows
February 13, 2016

Some of the Hundreds of Places We Would Like to Go "There is more going on, in more places, than you imagined."

Scene from Mojave Trails National Monument, one of three new protected areas President Obama created today (Jack Thompson for the Wildlands Conservancy)

Travel

Welcome Our Newest National Monuments!

James Fallows
February 12, 2016

Often it seems that modern presidents can't do anything â€” except wage war. Here's a heartening exception.

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