Eastport Road Map: Global Meets Local in a Very Small Town
The consequences of a good kind of frustration.
Civic Life
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Eastport on Marketplace
Hearing voices you won't forget, from a small group of inventive and determined people.
Eastport, Maine, Population 1,300
On a per capita basis, one of the grittiest and most inventive places in America.
From Burma to Burlington: The Story of ‘Brings Luck’
A refugee finding a new life.
‘When’s your birthday? January 1st’ Report from Sioux Falls
A school district of 60 different languages and cultures.
Welcome Marketplace Listeners, to American Futures
Kicking off a new collaborative project
American Futures: Grand Finale Holland-Palooza
A small arena in which many dramas are being played out.
If We’re Talking American Orientalism …
… as I was doing previously here and here, I thought it would be worth going back to re-read Joan Didion’s 1966 Saturday Evening Post article that so offended my home town back when I…
Readers on ‘American Orientalism’
Good thing I didn't mention snowmobiles.
On the ‘Orientalism’ of the Prairie
What happens when the "ordinary objects of our culture" are treated as curiosities.
Giant Lawn Machinery Everywhere: This Actually Is a Thing
Industrialization increases productivity. Sort of.
Holland and the Theory of Serial Reportage
Approximating reality, post by post by post.
‘American Futures’ Site-Suggestion Update
"Permanent beta" as a philosophy of travel, and life.
‘American Futures’: Introducing Our New Project
Several times this year, I have made cryptic mention of a new reporting project I was excited to undertake. It’s called “American Futures,” we’re unveiling it today, and over the…