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Former Government Officials on Hillary Clinton's Emails
Clinton embraces Rep. Elijah Cummings after her 11-hour Benghazi testimony last fall. Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy is to the right. (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)On Friday I argued that the Hillary...
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Eleven Signs a City Will Succeed
Chelsea BeckThis article appears in the March print edition alongside the cover story, “Can America Put Itself Back Together?”—a summation of James and Deb Fallows’s 54,000-mile journey around America...
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How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
Adam VoorhesWhen news broke late last year of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, most people in the rest of the country, and even the state, probably had to search a map to figure out where...
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Can America Put Itself Back Together? Kicking Off Another Online Season
A map of some of the places we have been and routes we have taken since the summer of 2013. The AtlanticThe Atlantic’s March issue should be reaching subscribers about now, and going on newsstands...
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The Pianist vs. the Leafblower: WAMU Reports
Composer and pianist Haskell Small at his studio in Washington. You can hear him play, and hear what’s going on outside, in Matthew Schwartz’s WAMU report. (Photo Matthew Schwartz)Last week the local...
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Welcome Our Newest National Monuments!
Scene from Mojave Trails National Monument, one of three new protected areas President Obama created today Jack Thompson for the Wildlands ConservancyBeing president involves a lot of stress, woe, and...
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Our Newest National Monument, From the Air
Mount San Gorgonio, from the south. This picture was taken one year ago. Today, much of the territory in view became part of a new National Monument.In our American Futures section, I’ve just described...
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American Futures Master List: Some of the Hundreds of Places We Would Like to Go
A few of the places we have been to so far. The AtlanticIn my article in the current issue, I say this about the places that my wife Deb and I have been visiting to learn about local responses to...
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Was Donald Trump Really Against the Iraq War?
The front runner and his wife in the foreground, a trailing rival in background. Jonathan Ernst / ReutersI respect and admire Donald Trump (yes, I wrote those words to begin a sentence) for flat-out...
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What Presidential Campaigns Show About Civic Fiber
Old-style civic engagement!The end of my current story in the magazine, on “How America Is Putting Itself Back Together,” explores the contrast between what I’m describing as healthy civic society at...
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A Trippy Look at Data Organization
Over the years, including in a number of posts collected on this Thread page, I’ve talked about some of the “artisanal” Mac-based programs I’ve used in my daily work since I made the PC->Mac switch...
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LA: City of Tomorrow
The ongoing theme in this thread involves “hastening the inevitable.” That is, speeding the transition from the very noisy, extremely polluting two-stroke gasoline engines that have been outlawed in...
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Amtrak Goes From Strength to Strength
Photo: Ansel AdamsA new entry on Amtrak’s cafe-car offerings: Victory Brewing Company’s Hop Devil IPA!This is a step forward on an already progressive menu. For years Amtrak has offered Sam Adams...
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Maybe Trump is Right: Penn Station Edition
Yesterday in this space I argued that Donald Trump should shut up. Amtrak’s recent decision to stock Victory Brewing Company’s Hop Devil IPA on some trains showed that America is already great...
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Fareed Zakaria GPS, and Another Traveler's Views
One of the founders of the successful and stylish Loll furniture company, at the the headquarters in Duluth. The company’s story is one I describe in the magazine article and talked about today on...
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A Police Shooting Case in Mississippi
Protest march in Columbus, Mississippi (Ricky Ball a Cry for Justice)Over the past few years we’ve mentioned many of the positive developments underway in the three counties of northern Mississippi...
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‘The Looming Entrepreneurial Boom’: Kauffman Weighs In
Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop, showing one of its products (a lamp) to Deb Fallows, at the TechShop San Francisco work space. Sites like these, designed to foster start-up manufacturers, are becoming...
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Talking About a Second Gilded Age, With ‘On Point’ Listeners
Members of San Bernardino’s “Generation Now” last year. The NYT has a story about work they and others are doing to improve a hard-pressed city. (Deborah Fallows)Two updates today:1) On Point. I spoke...
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Marco Rubio May Have Finally Discovered the Anti-Trump Kryptonite
Donald Trump expressing dominance over Jeb Bush. Oh, sorry, my mistake: It's actually Trump preparing to shave the head of rival VInce McMahon at Wrestlemania XXIII in 2007. YouTube No one is going to...
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In Which Warren Buffett Agrees With Me (or Perhaps Vice Versa)
Warren Buffett playing ping-pong, at a Berkshire Hathaway meeting last year. Another billionaire looks on. (Rick Wilking / Reuters)When I was living in and reporting from China, I spent a lot of time...
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