City Makers: American Futures

Winters, CA

• A Rural High School with a 21st Century Outlook

  A California school prepares its students for success.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Dec 20, 2014

• California Dreamin': How Collaboration Builds Small-Town Communities

  In Winters, California, a library, a swimming pool, and a school make a big difference in the quality of life.

  • Deborah Fallows
  • Nov 13, 2014

• A Song of America's Downtowns

  A heartening surprise of our travel so far: the breadth, seriousness, and—in some places—success of the effort to revitalize small-town downtowns. Or, what 3 programmers from Uzbekistan taught us about America.

  • James Fallows
  • Apr 22, 2014

• The Glamorous Life of a Journalist, Couples-Getaway Edition

  Addressing America's infrastructure crisis, while people are staying right in the infrastructure.

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 21, 2014

• Greenville, Burlington, and American Futures

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

  • James Fallows
  • Mar 20, 2014