What Does All This Local Reporting Add Up To?
Yesterday, Deb Fallows and I sent an email to various loyal readers of The Atlantic. You can see what was in that message in the “Continue Reading” section of this post.…
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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.
How a ‘Communiversity’ Works
Real collaboration in Mississippi
The Rural-Urban Divide Is More Complicated Than You Think
Here are a few stories I found intriguing from the past week’s newspapers, on the unfolding complexities of the much-discussed “rural-urban divide.” 1) The first is by Andrew Van Dam,…
An Engineering School Pulls Off an ‘Epic Trick Play’
Daring and Guts Pay off for Trine University
What David Halberstam Learned in Mississippi
A Journalistic Icon's First Lessons
National Policies Have Local Effects
Changes—in trade policies, and for refugees—are making the United States more closed, rather than more open
The Last Family-Owned Daily in Mississippi
How one local paper survives
Dead Malls, Everywhere
Readers weigh in on malls past their prime
On Emancipation Day, Back to Mississippi
A return visit to the Golden Triangle
Dead Malls, Reborn Cities
Ideas from the readers
What Happens to Abandoned Malls?
Opinions differ
‘Unknown Outside Indiana’
The previous four “Our Towns” posts have been about Indiana: One about Angola and the importance of its relationship with Trine University; one about Fort Wayne and its ambitious reconstruction of a cavernous abandoned GE works;…
An Unusual Way to Bridge the Town-Gown Divide
This post is about a development that few people outside the state of Indiana have ever heard or read about, but that has implications for the country as a whole.…
What We Saw in Muncie
How a university is helping a town move forward
Fort Wayne Makes Its Own Luck
Breadth, density, and boldness of experimentation
Our Towns: On the Road, in the Air
In the summer of 2013, nearly six years ago, my wife—Deb Fallows—and I announced in this space the beginning of a project to visit smaller towns around the country. These were places…