City Makers: American Futures
The people, organizations, and ideas reshaping the country. A journey piloted by James Fallows with Deborah Fallows.
Eat, drink, sleep
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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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Deborah Fallows / The Atlantic Farming in the Desert
A small town in Arizona grows a thriving food scene.
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Paradise Duluth
As part of the unfolding saga of start-up businesses as the crucial creators of new jobs, and of particular start-ups…
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Craft Breweries: No, I'm Not Kidding, They Actually Matter in Civic Development!
If you’re going to subscribe to only one magazine — well, really you should be subscribing to more! But you…
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Wikimedia Commons Gone Swimmin’
How public swimming pools show you the heart of a town
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Courtesy of Wall Street Suites The Good Ol' Days of the Motor Hotel Are Back
The metamorphosis of a Bend, Oregon, motel—from its classic origins, to crack house, to upscale rustic elegance.
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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 Thanksgiving in the Dust Bowl
A new understanding of bravery and independence
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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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Beer Notes From All Over, Starkville Edition
This is the new America.
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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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Ice Cream, Chocolate, Coffee, and Beer
Take ingredients and blend, for small-town synergy.
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From the Tree to the Table: The Journey of a Brave Little Orange
The surprising complexity behind even the simplest-seeming aspects of modern life.
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America-Going-to-Hell Watch, Heady Topper Dept.
Ever closer to the magical-unicorn ideal
