City Makers: American Futures

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• Returning to Ohio

  How a small, Midwestern town has changed over the decades—and where it aims to go

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Dec 12, 2016

• 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

• Language as Art in Pittsburgh

  Exiled writers use words as art and inspire a community.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Mar 21, 2016

• A Word Cloud of Ajo, Arizona

  The words we use about ourselves reveal surprising truths.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Apr 30, 2015

• A New Vocabulary for American Towns

  Three 21st-century words that are driving the nation's most dynamic municipalities

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 21, 2014

• Swampwise!

  Dipthongs turn into monopthongs, and other adventures among the cypress knees.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Apr 14, 2014

• The Word Cloud of a Town

  How the people of Sioux Falls describe themselves and their hometown.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Apr 7, 2014

• 'Where Do You Go to Church?' The Video and Mapping Versions

  More ways of taking the measure of this vast country.

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 26, 2014

• 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.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Feb 23, 2014

• What We Mean When We Say Hello

  The curious geography of American greetings

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Feb 16, 2014

• Dadgum! Katy, Bar the Door! Speaking Your Mind in South Carolina

  by Deborah Fallows

  • James Fallows
  • Jan 27, 2014

• 'Springbok, Cleared for Landing': More on the Language of the Skies

  By Deborah Fallows.

  • James Fallows
  • Dec 8, 2013

• 'Tis the L.L.Bean Season for Pinball Wizards and Wicked Good Wieners

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 23, 2013

• Do You Speak Eastport?

  A town teaches itself to talk positive.  

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 18, 2013

• Down East Down Under

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 4, 2013

• Flying Up Down East

  By Deborah Fallows

  • James Fallows
  • Oct 28, 2013

• EATNN TTUNA SNWCH - hold (at) MAYYO: More on the Secret Language of the Skies

  "The approach fixes, in order, are TRAMP, FLOZY, SILKY, and JAKOR. I'm sensing a pattern here but would love to know the back story."

  • James Fallows
  • Oct 17, 2013

• ITAWT ITAWA PUDYE TTATT: The Secret Language of the Skies

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Oct 16, 2013

• Magical Roundabouts and the Language of Signs

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Sep 28, 2013

• Everyone's a Linguist: More on 'Coming With'

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Sep 11, 2013

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