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A Longtime Pilot on the Aspen Crash
Aspen Airport, c/o Aspen airport authority. Planes usually land from right to left, in this view.J. Mac McClellan is known through the flying world as the long-time editor of Flying magazine. Now he...
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Ice Cream, Chocolate, Coffee, and Beer
Ryan Berk, of A la MinuteBy Deborah Fallows. Ryan Berk, Austin Amento, and Ben Cook have a lot in common: they are all founders of new, growing, and successful businesses in Redlands, California; they...
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When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
Since the beginning of this century, the most rapidly advancing field in the life sciences, and perhaps in human inquiry of any sort, has been genomics. In 2001, rival teams from the Human Genome...
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Eastport, Maine: The Little Town That Might
Flying across a landscape on a clear day, at low altitude, always reveals things you had not known. From 1,500 feet up, about the height of the Empire State Building, you are far enough from the ground...
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Robert Pastor
Robert A. Pastor, American University photo.It seems hard to remember, but four months ago the United States was on the brink of launching cruise missiles and intervening directly in the Syrian civil...
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What Is a 'Class-A War Criminal'? More on the Yasukuni Controversy.
Westboro Church protestor, AP photo via NPR.If you are joining us late, background on why it matters so much in China -- and Japan -- that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine in...
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The Iran Vote: This Really Matters, and You Should Let Your Senators Know
Denis Balibouse/ReutersI have been on the road in the South, and staying in a place with no Internet, and doing interviews for another American Futures installment—this one about the way...
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Separated at Birth? Greenville, Sioux Falls
Here is Falls Park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last summer: And here is Falls Park in Greenville, South Carolina, this afternoon: A decade ago, the falls areas in both cities were dangerous and...
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Iran Sanctions Update: Have Senators Actually Read This Bill?
Recently I argued that a dozen-plus Senate Democrats were doing something strange and reckless in signing on to a Republican effort that would abort a potential deal to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions....
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Welcome to Greenville and 'The Upstate'
Ballet class, yesterday afternoon at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities in downtown Greenville, S.C. It's a "residential public high school for emerging artists." Photo...
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In Which I Develop New Respect for the Wedding-Industrial Complex
I have no world-changing point to make, but the scene below, this weekend, was quite amazing. Here is the back story: Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I came back to DC after a productive initial visit...
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My Current Favorite TV Ad
If I were choosing a career title-winner for favorite ad, I would have to recognize the annoying-but-non-forgettable "Five-Dollar Foot Lonnnng!" campaign Subway has been running since 2008. It drives...
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America's Tiniest Engineers: Report from Greenville, South Carolina
By Deborah Fallows. It was the monthly "engineering week" when I visited the A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering in Greenville, South Carolina, in January. Volunteers from one of the...
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Thursday Late-Night Reader: Eight Ways of Thinking About China
Updates from Greenville and "the upstate" of South Carolina coming soon. In the meantime, selected China readings: Amb. Jorge Guajardo (right), via WSJ.1) "Is China the Next Mexico?" Atlantic readers...
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Friday Mid-Day Reader: Iran, etc.
Following last night's China roundup, another batch of news items before we get back to Greenville, South Carolina: 1) The Iran deal: substance. As a reminder, the interim...
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Smaller-Town Startups: 'Stopping the Brain Drain' in South Carolina
"Code academy" room for The Iron Yard, inside the Next tech-accelerator building Greenville SC.Yesterday PCH International -- the company from Shenzhen, in southern China, that is run by my friend Liam...
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Dadgum! Katy, Bar the Door! Speaking Your Mind in South Carolina
South Carolina. Image via SCPRTBy Deborah Fallows. Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Greenville is located in the heart of The Upcountry of South Carolina. Colloquially, most people...
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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! SOTU Edition.
Harry Truman's State of the Union, 63 years ago. Truman gave the first televised SOTU, in 1947, and the longest one ever, at around 25,000 words, in 1951. Photo from Politics Daily.Since the dawn of...
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SOTU in 8 Thought Drops
Ronald Reagan, back in the days of yore. Read on to discover why I am using this photo.Not doing an annotated version this year, for mainly technical reasons. Thus this bullet-point version. (Plus,...
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Why the Cory Remsburg Tribute Will Be Seen as a Sign of Our Times, and a Bad...
Barack Obama has always been said to take The Long View. It's a point he made several times in last night's speech, most explicitly here: Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look...
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