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Trump Time Capsule #6: There Is No California Drought
The intensifying California drought, via Wunderground.Daily Trump #6: May 27, 2016. Drought? What drought?The rains of the past El Nino season have slightly offset the disastrous multi-year drought in...
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Trump Time Capsule #7: ‘The Judge, We Believe, Is Mexican’
Donald Trump at a rally in March, with a sign depicting his promised Wall. (Jonathan Drake / Reuters)It’s increasingly evident that something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump. That would be his own...
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Stories for Memorial Day
A Memorial Day poem in the Atlantic Monthly, 149 years ago.I would like to mention three.The first is a story my wife Deb wrote in our American Futures series two years ago, from Columbus, Mississippi....
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Trump Time Capsule #8: Illegal Immigrants Are Treated Better Than Veterans
Donald Trump yesterday at the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters). Based on comparison with photos from other angles, the hair beneath Trump’s ear is part of his...
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It Is All My Fault
Sooner or later this was bound to come out.Maybe I can parlay this into a Vice Presidential slot? Or at least, package-deal sales to go along with the MAGA red hats and t-shirts?Or maybe I can sue?
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Trump as Pander Bear
Bill Clinton as “Pander Bear”In an item this weekend in the “Daily Trump” thread, I noted Donald Trump’s claim that illegal immigrants are treated better than military veterans. The line got a big...
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Trump Time Capsule #9: You're a Sleaze
Daily Trump #9, May 31, 2016. “You’re a sleaze.”How do we put in perspective Donald Trump’s angry criticism of reporters, collectively and by individual name, at his press conference today? The clip...
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Trump Time Capsule #10: The Gorilla and the Brexit
I think there’s actually a reason to keep laying this out, but we’ll get to that. For now, let’s look at a genuinely impressive moment of Donald Trump in the public eye.Daily Trump #10: June 1, 2016....
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How the Local Food Movement Is Changing Rural Health
A small plot farmed by the Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Ajo, Arizona (Deborah Fallows)My wife Deb Fallows has a new post up to kick off the next season of our American Futures series, on a...
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Trump Time Capsule #11: Mexican Heritage
House Speaker Paul Ryan after his meeting with Donald Trump last month, when Ryan was still saying he was undecided about supporting Trump. (Jim Bourg / Reuters)This is all over the news, so I’ll just...
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‘Like the Logbook Entries of a Doomed Sailor Stranded at Sea’
Franklin D. Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933, with the famous line “the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” A reader, 23 years old, wonders how today’s fears compare with those of other...
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Libertarians and Lawn Equipment
I’ve been lying low in public on this front, while a lot of activity has been going on backstage.Summary version: a bill to accelerate the transition away from super-polluting, noisy, leaf blowers...
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The Economic Logic of Preserving Wild Areas
Wild Sky Beef logoA few weeks ago I mentioned a new collaboration between the filmmaker Ken Burns and the creators of the American Prairie Reserve in Montana. They’re working together on a prize in...
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Time Capsule #12: 'I'm Building a Wall'
I strongly encourage you to watch this CNN clip from Jake Tapper’s latest interview with Donald Trump:Trump Time Capsule #12, June 3, 2016. I’m Building a WallYou may think you’ve heard it all about...
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Inside the Trump Rally in San Jose
Protestors outside the Donald Trump rally, San Jose, June 2, 2016 (Stephen Lam / Reuters).I genuinely have no idea what is going to happen to the Trump campaign at this point. It’s hard to see how he,...
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Budget Challenges at a Remarkable Mississippi School
Students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science doing a historical re-enactment in the town cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi, in 2014. (James Fallows)Over the past two years my wife...
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Trump Time Capsule #13: Crickets
Donald Trump’s response the morning after Hillary Clinton’s speech lambasting him.There is too much going on to catch up with fully, so let me mention a case that is not about something Donald Trump...
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Trump Time Capsule #14: I've Never Been Asked That Question Before
Jake Tapper’s full interview with Donald Trump, aired today, is an important part of the time-capsule process, of recording what was known about the presumptive GOP nominee as the party lined up behind...
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Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 1, the Tools Revolution
In the years when I was visiting and learning about factories in China, my dominant emotion was, I can’t wait to tell people about this! Of course everyone “knew,” in general terms, about the rise of...
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Trump Time Capsule #15: The Candidate Has No Campaign
Tweet on the morning of June 6, 2016, apparently in response to articles saying that Donald Trump has no campaign organization.Time Capsule #15, June 6, 2016, Donald Trump Has No CampaignAs with item...
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