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Midterm Countdown, 33 Days to Go: Language from Our Leader.
It’s not just your imagination. Donald Trump’s active vocabulary, his train of thought, his ability to filter are all in rapid decline. We’re watching a leaky balloon as it deflates.
Photos from Donald Trump’s Playboy interview in 1990. Hi...
Midterm Time Capsule, 35 Days to Go.
What we know, when we don’t know how things will turn out.
1850s image of the ruined Temple of Ramesses the Great, subject of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias: “ ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains.” We’re n...
Running as a Democrat, in a Trump +30 State.
Doug Jones, a white Democrat, pulled off one historic upset in Alabama nine years ago, in winning a US Senate seat. Now he is attempting another, in his race for governor.
Omar Neal, a former mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, after a town hall f...
Twenty-five Years After 9/11: What Have We Learned, and Forgotten?
It’s the things we don’t talk about that have changed the most. They need our attention now.
Shown above, with date highlighted in red, the cover of The Atlantic’s print issue of September 2006. On the fifth anniversary of the devastating...
‘Breaking the News’ is Back.
Sunrise over Lake Ontario. (Photo davidphotographyca via Getty Images.)
Greetings everyone! This is an announcement-style post about recent activities and upcoming plans.
Three months ago, at the beginning of summer, I wrote that a...
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James Fallows is a long-time book and magazine writer; co-founder of Our Towns Civic Foundation; Atlantic contributor; co-author of Our Towns.
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