City Makers: American Futures

Duluth, MN

• Paradise Duluth

  As part of the unfolding saga of start-up businesses as the crucial creators of new jobs, and of particular start-ups…

  • James Fallows
  • Apr 9, 2016
  • Notes

• On National Beer Day, Craft Brewers Improving Water, and Life, in More Ways Than One

  Thanks to my Atlantic colleague Kathy Gilsinan for the reminder of why today is different from all other days: It’s…

  • James Fallows
  • Apr 7, 2016
  • Notes

• From Fresno to Duluth to Allentown, with Montana in Between: Civic Updates

  Here are some generally positive developments from places we’ve visited in our travels. Fresno: This evening Fresno, California…

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 30, 2016
  • Notes

• Fareed Zakaria GPS, and Another Traveler's Views

  This morning I was on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS program on CNN, talking about the project behind my current Atlantic cover…

  • James Fallows
  • Feb 21, 2016
  • Notes

• A Field Trip to America's Public Libraries

  How they serve the needs of their communities

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 19, 2014

• Americana: Wade Stadium, Home of the Huskies

  An evening in the ballpark, a look into the sports-in-America beat.

  • James Fallows
  • Jun 11, 2014

• The Vermont Lake Monsters, and Other Updates From the Road

  Are people in smaller towns "nicer" than cosmopolitans? No. But their political structures are working better.

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 24, 2014

• Greenville, Burlington, and American Futures

  "I loathed it with the heat of a thousand million suns."

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 20, 2014