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Our Towns Returns to Eastport, Maine, Ten Years Later

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 23, 2023
Deb and Jim Fallows talk with David Dahl of The Maine Monitor.
Andrew McKeever, Jim Fallows, Deb Fallows on Greater Northshire Access Television's ‘The News Project: In Studio’.
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Discussing the ‘Our Towns’ Journey on The News Project

  • Ben Speggen
  • March 29, 2023
Deb and Jim Fallows explore the ongoing story of Our Towns with Andrew McKeever on Greater Northshire Access Television's ‘The News Project: In Studio’.
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‘America is the most interesting place in the world at this moment’

  • Deborah Fallows
  • January 10, 2023
Deb and Jim Fallows discuss the Our Towns journey with Brett Hollenbeck on 'The Impact Code' podcast.
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Books & Writers – The Creative Process Features Deborah & James Fallows

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 3, 2022
Deb and Jim share their views on writing and life in an episode of the insightful “The Creative Process” podcast series.
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What Makes a City Great? – BYU Radio

  • Ben Speggen
  • April 25, 2022
Top of Mind with Julie RoseMillions of Americans move each year in search of a better house, neighborhood, job, or quality of life. Is leaving the only way to live…
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Write America: Deborah and James Fallows

  • Ben Speggen
  • April 25, 2022
Join Alice-Byrd’s Books for the fifty-seventh episode of “Write America,” featuring Deb and Jim Fallows, as they read and discuss their works intimating how the deep divisions in the country…
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James Fallows featured on ‘Stand Up with Pete Dominick’

  • Shelli Stockton
  • March 9, 2022
Jim joins host Pete Dominick for his podcast to discuss events of the day. The podcast features “brilliant guests daily.”
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Looking at America from up high and on the ground, with Jim Fallows

  • Shelli Stockton
  • March 7, 2022
On this episode of the Vital Center, Jim and podcast host Geoff Kabaservice discuss Deb and Jim’s travels across the country and why politics so often works better at the…
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Anarchism is…James Fallows’s Our Towns

  • Shelli Stockton
  • February 16, 2022
In this conversation, James joins host Graham Culbertson for a discussion of the dysfunction of the federal government, its historically reactionary nature, and the way that “Our Towns” offer a…
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Writers James and Deborah Fallows speak on hope for improving local communities

  • Shelli Stockton
  • February 15, 2022
The Daily Universe reported on James and Deborah Fallowses’ February 15, 2022 forum at BYU. In addition to specific ideas they shared for for what people can do to improve…
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Listen to “James & Deborah Fallows on ‘Our Towns’: a Craftsmanship Artisan Interview”

  • Shelli Stockton
  • February 10, 2022
This husband-and-wife journalism team spent four years crisscrossing the United States in a small plane, visiting dozens of small towns. They saw  communities engaged in a vigorous process of economic…
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Examining American Democracy Through the Lens of Place

  • Shelli Stockton
  • January 26, 2022
The United States is experiencing a time of division—urban vs. rural, state vs. local, and red vs. blue. Many of these fissures are most acute within the Ten Across region,…
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‘We’re Speaking’ features ‘Our Towns’ in conversation

  • Ben Speggen
  • December 2, 2021
A conversation on the experimentation, renewal, and hope for America's small towns.
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Change: Global & Local

  • Shelli Stockton
  • October 14, 2021
How do global changes affect us on the local level, and vice versa? Writer and journalist James Fallows, and the founder of FutureMap, Parag Khanna, discuss the interplay between the…
Renewal at all levels
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‘Renewal’ at All Levels — The Personal to the Global. An Urgent Conversation with Two Leaders of the Movement

  • Ben Speggen
  • September 23, 2021
What can a conversation about 'Renewal' teach us about climate change?
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What America’s Small Towns Tell Us About Democracy

  • Shelli Stockton
  • August 31, 2021
Ten Across Founder Duke Reiter talks to veteran journalists James and Deborah Fallows, who have recently traveled the country reporting from America’s small towns to explore the nation’s growing fragmentation…

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