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Immigrants & Refugees
A Post-Election Field Report From America’s Refugees and Immigrants
Words and stories from the towns where the newest Americans live
Reports From America
Refugees, Immigrants, and the Battle Over Who Is American
Sisters originally from Darfur, resettled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The young lady on the left was a proud member of public high school ROTC. Deborah Fallows / The Atlantic Deb Fallows has a new post up, about what’s actually involved in settling immigrants from Syria—or Somalia or Congo or Bhutan—in the American cities that have taken […]
Arts
A New Vocabulary for American Towns
Three 21st-century words that are driving the nation's most dynamic municipalities
Economic & Business Development
The 100% Renewable-Powered City: Too Good to be True?
Balancing substance and symbolism in the movement toward cleaner energy sources
Economic & Business Development
Greening Up in Burlington, Rocking Out in Allentown
As American government seems ever more paralyzed at the national level, cities continue to find ways to grapple with real problems. Two more examples.
Economic & Business Development
A Song of America’s Downtowns
A heartening surprise of our travel so far: the breadth, seriousness, and—in some places—success of the effort to revitalize small-town downtowns. Or, what 3 programmers from Uzbekistan taught us about America.
Leaders & Governance
The Vermont Lake Monsters, and Other Updates From the Road
Are people in smaller towns "nicer" than cosmopolitans? No. But their political structures are working better.
Arts
Greenville, Burlington, and American Futures
"I loathed it with the heat of a thousand million suns."
Economic & Business Development
Why Do Tech Companies End Up Where They Are?
"You get some clusters, and some stand-alone firms far from anyone else. But rarely anything in-between."
Economic & Business Development
Luck? Planning? Karma? The Elements of a Small Town’s High-Tech
A software company grows in an unlikely setting. "Why here?" we ask the founders.
Economic & Business Development
When Rails Make the Difference, From Down East to the Southwest
The loss of rail service into a small Maine town has been crippling
Economic & Business Development
America-Going-to-Hell Watch, Heady Topper Dept.
Ever closer to the magical-unicorn ideal
From the Readers
How the #1 ‘Breakthrough’ Helps Modern Communities Survive
The importance of communities, imagined and real.
Education
What Would an Ideal College Look Like?
A Lot Like This
Education
How Did a ‘Public Ivy’ Take Root in Vermont?
And the remarkable symbiosis that enriches both the city and its university
Education
Vermont Report:
Shaping the Soul of a School