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Presented at Google

  • Michelle Ellia
  • July 11, 2018
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Interviewed for On The Media

  • Shelli Stockton
  • June 29, 2018
Brooke talks with James and Deborah about their findings, including a list of what they call the “10 and 1/2 Signs of Civic Success,” which include openness to cultural diversity, innovative schools…
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Interviewed at the Aspen Ideas Festival

  • Shelli Stockton
  • June 27, 2018
Congress’s approval ratings are in the gutter, local candidates routinely campaign against Washington, and voter turnout for national elections rarely tops 60 percent. Politicians can be counted on to campaign…
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Featured on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour

  • Shelli Stockton
  • June 23, 2018
“Ralph talks to Atlantic magazine writer and former protégé, James Fallows, about the trip he took with his wife, Deborah, that resulted in their book, “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey…
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Featured on C-Span

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 25, 2018
James and Deborah Fallows talked about their book, Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of America.
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Interviewed on Pacifica Radio

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 20, 2018
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Featured on Zocalo Public Square

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 18, 2018
Many pundits wring their hands over America’s small towns as places that have fallen behind in the rapidly changing 21st-century economy. But James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, co-authors of Our…
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Featured on PlayerFM

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 17, 2018
“Chronicling their experience traveling the country in a single-engine prop plane, the married duo share what they learned about America’s smaller communities that are often overlooked by the media.”
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Featured on NBC News

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 17, 2018
“According to James, the strong signs of regional identity, reform, experimentation, innovation, and positivity, paired with cities’ ability to create long-term plans, demonstrates how the nation is still going strong.”
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Featured on KQED

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 15, 2018
“The two discovered an optimism for the future of America, which Fallows says is a departure from the popular narrative that America has lost its way.”
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Featured on WBUR

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 14, 2018
James and Deborah Fallows are featured on “On Point” with Jane Clayson.
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Interviewed by Len Edgerly

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 9, 2018
Len Edgerly interviews James and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America.
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Featured on Fox News Radio

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 8, 2018
“James & Deborah Fallows,joined Brian Kilmeade to discuss their book “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America” which chronicles their journey visiting small towns in the heart…
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Featured on The Ezra Klein Show

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 7, 2018
“They came to believe that the story America is telling about itself to itself — a story of national decline, of bitter political polarization, of rural resentment and coastal elitism…
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CBS Sunday Morning Cover Story

  • Shelli Stockton
  • May 6, 2018
Here’s a segment from reporter Lee Cowan, producer Mark Hudspeth, and their colleagues at CBS Sunday Morning.
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Jim and Deb Fallows Talk “American Futures” with Kai Ryssdal

  • James Fallows
  • September 22, 2015
An interview on the collaboration between Marketplace and The Atlantic.

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