City Makers: American Futures
The people, organizations, and ideas reshaping the country. A journey piloted by James Fallows with Deborah Fallows.
Life in the Air
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The End of the Journey
Arriving in Tucson, we felt the inklings of coming full circle with our American Futures project. Only one more leg…
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In Flight
We took off west from Demopolis, Alabama, prepared for a lot of flying ahead on this last journey for The…
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Flying Into the Deep South
We woke up in Demopolis, Alabama, on day two of the final journey of our American Futures series for The…
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Farewell to Washington
Montgomery County traffic, Cirrus Four-Three-Five Sierra Romeo taking Runway One-Four, VFR (visual flight rules) departure to the west, Montgomery. …
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Happy New Year: See You in June
For me this is the third post of the day, and probably the last in this space for quite a…
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Deborah Fallows Life in the Air
Getting from here to there by small plane
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Dodge City Postcard
Notes from the ground, from the sky, and from the people of Dodge City, Kansas
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From the Air Traffic Controller's Perspective
Two days ago I mentioned the unflappable, multi-tasking and multi-dimensional competence with which an air-traffic controller at Denver’s Centennial airport…
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View From the Right Seat
During our more than 50,000 miles of flight for our American Futures project, I’ve sat in the “right seat”…
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The Air Traffic Ballet
During our travels Deb has often mentioned our interest in, and nearly-all-times admiration for, the Air Traffic Controllers with whom…
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Deborah Fallows What Rural Economies Look Like From Above
In Kansas, the advent of an energy industry is inscribing itself on the physical landscape, adding wind farms to wheat farms.
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America by Air: Whitewater
In one way or another, all Clinton-era “scandals” trace back to Whitewater. That was the late-1970s Arkansas real estate deal…
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Deb Fallows / The Atlantic Listening to Montana
In Chester, Montana, a world away from city life inspires an artist's music.
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Airman 1st Class Sivan Veazie/ U.S. Air Force A Calculated Risk I Decided Not to Take
"Here we were doing what was a 'strafing run' down the highway and talking to Snake Eye and looking for the craters at the south end of the corridor." Why we made this last leg of the journey by car.
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Brian Lockett for Air-and-Space.com Ask and Ye Shall Be Told, Mystery Airplane Edition
Sometimes crowdsourcing pays off.
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James Fallows When I Grow Up ...
Darth Vader vs. Casper the Friendly Ghost, on an airport tarmac
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Map with Esri software, by John Tierney The Long Stretch Home
The fourth day of a cross-country flight
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Eleanor Grandstaff Collection Revisiting The Atlantic's Dust Bowl Series
The third day of a cross-country flight
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Photos Deb Fallows Connecting Dots Over America
The second day of a cross-country flight
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James Fallows, courtesy Thomas Fallows Flying West From the Winter
The first day of a cross-country flight
