City Makers: American Futures

Dodge City, KS

• A Post-Election Field Report From America's Refugees and Immigrants

  Words and stories from the towns where the newest Americans live

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Dec 3, 2016

• Why Not Dodge? Why Not Stockton?

  I mentioned yesterday that several local initiatives could mean as much to their communities or states as the outcome of…

  • James Fallows
  • Nov 8, 2016
  • Notes

• What the Renewable-Energy Economy Looks Like

  At its peak, nearly one century ago in 1920, the coal-mining industry employed nearly 800,000 people in the United…

  • James Fallows
  • Nov 3, 2016
  • Notes

• The Generational Difference in Optimism: A Video Look

  I hope you'll check out the second in the series of short films that The Atlantic’s video team has…

  • James Fallows
  • Oct 25, 2016
  • Notes

• Is America in a Boiling Fury About Immigration? Not the America I Have Seen

  Over the past year-plus my wife Deb and I have been arguing that the “build a wall!”-style anti-immigration…

  • James Fallows
  • Oct 22, 2016
  • Notes

• A Carnegie Legacy in Dodge City

  Synergy of arts and civic life in a Kansas town

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Aug 15, 2016

• Dodge City Postcard

  Notes from the ground, from the sky, and from the people of Dodge City, Kansas

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Aug 8, 2016

• What's (Less) the Matter With Kansas

  This week’s election news out of Kansas was the defeat in the GOP primaries of some of the hardest-line Tea…

  • James Fallows
  • Aug 5, 2016
  • Notes

• Educating Migrant Children in Dodge City

  “We’re a port of entry 1,000 miles from the border.”

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Aug 3, 2016

• A Different Kind of 'Trump Nation' Report

  Western Kansas, where Deb and I have spent time over the past month, is the heart of Trump Nation in…

  • James Fallows
  • Jul 23, 2016
  • Notes

• Dodge City's New Frontier

  A high school in the famed Kansas town is embracing its rapidly changing demographics.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Jul 23, 2016

• New Pioneers in Southwest Kansas

  Mexican immigrants on the Great Plains try to build new lives, with hope and help.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Jul 13, 2016

• The Story of Ernestor

  Dodge City, Kansas relies on undocumented immigrants—from meatpacking workers to the city’s assistant finance director.

  • James Fallows
  • Jul 8, 2016

• 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.

  • James Fallows
  • Jun 26, 2016

• A Note About Trumpism, From the 'Real America'

  For the past week my wife Deb and I have been in western Kansas — Dodge City mainly, also Garden…

  • James Fallows
  • Jun 25, 2016
  • Notes