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This Is What the Resistance Sounds Like
Governor Jerry Brown of California got Twitter-verse attention for saying two days ago that if Donald Trump shuts down satellite collection of climate data, “California will launch its own damn...
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Remember the 'Thucydides Trap'? The Chinese Do; Trump Clearly Does Not
A tweet from Donald Trump this morning. It carried the meta-data label “Twitter for iPhone,” which has generally meant a staff-written tweet, in contrast to the freer-swinging 3am messages from Trump’s...
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Books to Read (or Buy), According to Me
The best seasonal present, this year and any year (since 1857), is of course a subscription to The Atlantic. Get yours now!But in addition to that, books make the perfect gift. My own book choices are...
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Robert L. Fallows, My Uncle Bob: 1922-2016.
Robert Fallows was 19 when he joined the Army after Pearl Harbor. He spent much of the next four years in action. (Family photos.)Eight years ago I mentioned that a run of very public news—the deaths...
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All Progress Is Local: New Year’s Notes From Around the Country
This is the first of three posts on this New Year’s Day, building toward a change in (my part of) this space for the next few months.First installment: quick updates on a few places and projects that...
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‘Here's to the People Who Are Not Known’
In writing about the inevitable but sad passing of my last surviving uncle, Robert L. Fallows of the Philadelphia area, I mentioned the phenomenon of people who—like him, and like my own parents—are...
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Happy New Year: See You in June
For me this is the thirdpost of the day, and probably the last in this space for quite a while.Effective today, I’m beginning a five-month book-writing leave from online and print activities for the...
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Dear Mr. Obama: You Are Still the President
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference in a packed White House press briefing room on November 14, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)In the four weeks since the election, which seem like...
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Despair and Hope in Trump’s America
I have been alive for a long time. I remember the assassination of John F. Kennedy, when I was a 10th-grader, and then watching with my family through the grim following days as newscasters said that...
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Landslide Donald
Kellyanne Conway, on Donald Trump’s “blowout” winAs I mentioned in this post in late November, and in this followup, and also in a discussion with Diane Rehm on her new podcast series yesterday, Donald...
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Which Department Should Rick Perry Head? The Answer Will Come to You.
I have a soft spot for Rick Perry, finding his aw-shucks demeanor more natural-seeming than most politicians’. I can even remember the time, in the summer and fall of 2011, when Perry seemed the...
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This Is What the Resistance Sounds Like
Governor Jerry Brown of California got Twitter-verse attention for saying two days ago that if Donald Trump shuts down satellite collection of climate data, “California will launch its own damn...
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Remember the 'Thucydides Trap'? The Chinese Do; Trump Clearly Does Not
A tweet from Donald Trump this morning. It carried the meta-data label “Twitter for iPhone,” which has generally meant a staff-written tweet, in contrast to the freer-swinging 3am messages from Trump’s...
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Books to Read (or Buy), According to Me
The best seasonal present, this year and any year (since 1857), is of course a subscription to The Atlantic. Get yours now!But in addition to that, books make the perfect gift. My own book choices are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Robert L. Fallows, My Uncle Bob: 1922-2016.
Robert Fallows was 19 when he joined the Army after Pearl Harbor. He spent much of the next four years in action. (Family photos.)Eight years ago I mentioned that a run of very public news—the deaths...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All Progress Is Local: New Year’s Notes From Around the Country
This is the first of three posts on this New Year’s Day, building toward a change in (my part of) this space for the next few months.First installment: quick updates on a few places and projects that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Here's to the People Who Are Not Known’
In writing about the inevitable but sad passing of my last surviving uncle, Robert L. Fallows of the Philadelphia area, I mentioned the phenomenon of people who—like him, and like my own parents—are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy New Year: See You in June
For me this is the thirdpost of the day, and probably the last in this space for quite a while.Effective today, I’m beginning a five-month book-writing leave from online and print activities for...
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A Big Step for Little Eastport
Since our first visit in the fall of 2013, Deb and I have reported frequently on the grit, vision, resilience, and apparently indomitable drive of the roughly 1300 people who live in the little city of...
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'Let's Care About Someone Who Does Not Belong to Our Tribe'
The old Hotel Virginia in downtown Fresno, latest site of expansion by the tech incubator-and-training firm called Bitwise Industries. (Historic Fresno).We could use a little positive news at the...
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