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Shutdown Notebook: Decline and Fall
- James Fallows
- January 12, 2019
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Two Questions About a Surreal Oval Office Exchange
- James Fallows
- December 11, 2018
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Agnosticism and the Gary Hart Case
- James Fallows
- November 26, 2018
Kevin Coombs / Reuters

A Sikorsky Veteran on Marine One in the Rain
- James Fallows
- November 13, 2018
Jason Reed / Reuters

Trump, Marine One, and the Rain: Pilots and Other Readers Weigh In
- James Fallows
- November 13, 2018
Win McNamee / Reuters

‘Was Gary Hart Set Up?’: Readers Respond
- James Fallows
- October 23, 2018
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Midterm Time Capsule, 35 Days to Go: ‘Outright Fraud’
- James Fallows
- October 2, 2018
Jim Bourg / Reuters

Midterm Time Capsule, 37 Days to Go: What Trump and Kavanaugh Have in Common
- James Fallows
- September 30, 2018
Carlo Allegri / Reuters

Midterm Time Capsule, 41 Days to Go: Laughter at the UN
- James Fallows
- September 26, 2018
Reuters / Jim Bourg

Midterm Time Capsule, 42 Days to Go: Fox News and The New Yorker
- James Fallows
- September 25, 2018
Midterm Time Capsule, 47 Days to Go: Derangement Comes to the Kavanaugh Fight
- James Fallows
- September 21, 2018
John Moore / Getty

Midterm Time Capsule, 48 Days to Go: Children, the Future, Cancer, Due Process
- James Fallows
- September 19, 2018
Screenshot from White House Press Office

Midterm Time Capsule, 49 Days to Go: Intel Dump, Refugee Cap
- James Fallows
- September 18, 2018
Courtesy Kevin KAL Kallaugher, Baltimore Sun

Midterm Time Capsule, 50 Days to Go: The Kavanaugh Watch
- James Fallows
- September 17, 2018
Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Midterm Time Capsule: Good for Jeff Flake
- James Fallows
- September 16, 2018
Rich Wilking / Reuters

Midterm Time Capsule, 51 Days to Go: Manafort
- James Fallows
- September 16, 2018
Thomas J. O’Halloran, via Library of Congress

Midterm Time Capsule, 52 Days to Go: Rush to Judgment on Kavanaugh
- James Fallows
- September 15, 2018
George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

Midterm Time Capsule, 54 Days to Go: ‘Making Me Look Bad’
- James Fallows
- September 13, 2018
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Trump Time Capsule Redux: Vichy Senate Edition
- James Fallows
- September 12, 2018
US Marine Corps photo, via WIkimedia

Is Bob Woodward Like Walter Cronkite?
- James Fallows
- September 11, 2018

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