City Makers: American Futures
The people, organizations, and ideas reshaping the country. A journey piloted by James Fallows with Deborah Fallows.
Life on the Road
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Jinx!/Flickr The Hard Road to Making Hard Liquor
A look at a nascent distillery in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley
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The Colony Meadery Making Mead in a Space-Age World
A new craft-beverage business in Allentown, Pennsylvania, benefits from its association with an incubator of high-tech businesses.
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James Fallows What the Beer Industry and the Computer Industry Have in Common
They grew up in the same era and, despite some obvious differences, have some surprising parallels.
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John Tierney Pennsylvania's Beer Economy
Brewers have been perfecting their recipes in this part of the country since the middle of the 19th century.
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Jessica Phelps How to Attract Artists to a Down-and-Out Neighborhood
Columbus, Ohio, has figured out how to draw creative types to an area it is hoping to revitalize.
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A Day on the Road: A Story-Map View of Allentown
What you find is usually not quite what you were looking for.
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Iron Pigs baseball club The Iron Pigs Come to Allentown
Changing the spirit of a town with sports
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Photos by Deborah Fallows Vaulting to Great Heights in Allentown
How girls from the Lehigh Valley become world-class gymnasts
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Americana: Wade Stadium, Home of the Huskies
An evening in the ballpark, a look into the sports-in-America beat.
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Beer Notes From All Over, Starkville Edition
This is the new America.
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Deborah Fallows The Spirit of Easter, Small-Airport Edition
Unexpected hospitality on the road.
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Takeoff and Landing, From Inside the Cockpit
The sense of 3-D swimming through space that comes with small plane flight.
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James Fallows Swampwise!
Dipthongs turn into monopthongs, and other adventures among the cypress knees.
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James Fallows St. Marys Interlude: The Okefenokee
Ever wondered what one of America's most famous swamps looks like? Wonder no more.
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John Tierney and Deborah Fallows The Word Cloud of a Town
How the people of Sioux Falls describe themselves and their hometown.
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Atlantic Video Channel 'Where Do You Go to Church?' The Video and Mapping Versions
More ways of taking the measure of this vast country.
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James Fallows The Glamorous Life of a Journalist, Couples-Getaway Edition
Addressing America's infrastructure crisis, while people are staying right in the infrastructure.
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Deborah Fallows On the Road Again: St. Marys
Starting the Mardi Gras festivities early in southernmost Georgia
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Universal Why We Never Get Over High School
Across the nation, people have different questions they ask when meeting someone new. There are hidden meanings in all of them -- including a popular one about schooling.
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The Power of Mapping
Geospatial information is changing the way we approach the world around us. Here's an example.
