by James Fallows
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
Read the cover-story article here.
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Eleven Signs a City Will Succeed
by James Fallows
This article appears in the March print edition of The Atlantic, alongside the cover story, “Can America Put Itself Back Together?”—a summation of James and Deb Fallows’s 54,000-mile journey around America in a single-engine plane.
Jim starts this way: “By the time we had been to half a dozen cities, we had developed an informal checklist of the traits that distinguished a place where things seemed to work. These items are obviously different in nature, most of them are subjective, and some of them overlap. But if you tell us how a town measures up based on these standards, we can guess a lot of other things about it.”
Fareed Zakaria GPS, and Another Traveler’s Views
by James Fallows
In this post, Jim calls attention to his appearance on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS Program, talking about his new cover story in The Atlantic. Some links to video are included.
Read it (and view) here.
Pitching In to Save a Library
by Deborah Fallows
In San Bernardino, one way to help save the city is to save its library. (Read it here.)
‘American Futures’ Master List: Some of the Hundreds of Places We Would Like to Go
by James Fallows
“There is more going on, in more places, than you imagined.”
Here is a list of hundreds of small cities and towns nominated by local residents, who view them as having lots going on, making them worthy candidates for a visit from the American Futures reporting team. Is your town on the list? How many of these places have you visited?
Read it here.
Can America Put Itself Back Together? Kicking Off Another Online Season
by James Fallows
Across the country, people think America is going to hell—but things look better here locally. Why the general tone of the moment’s politics is wrong.
In this online piece, Jim Fallows calls attention to his new cover article laying out the themes emerging from the American Futures reporting project, and provides a short synopsis of key points.
This post contains a bonus — a video, produced by videographers from The Atlantic, showing Jim and his wife Deb as they talk about Mississippi’s “Golden Triangle.”
Read (and view) here.
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