Michelle Ellia

“Forget National Dysfunction. America’s Cities Are Blooming. Fresno Among Them.”

“Redlands native James Fallows and his wife Deborah have been crisscrossing the U.S. in a single-engine prop airplane searching for answers to what does and does not make this country…

“Most of the cities tell a redemption story about themselves. They had a booming industry; it collapsed; now they are rebuilding with new industries and new wealth.”

“As the authors dropped from the sky into communities from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Duluth, to Ajo, N.M., to Burlington, Vt., to St. Mary’s, Ga., they slowly pieced together a…

“If Greenville had a “separated at birth” twin city, the most likely candidate is Burlington, Vermont, according to James and Deborah Fallows, co-authors of the book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile…

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“Our Towns is admittedly an anecdotal analysis. But the Fallows’ on-and-off journeys between 2012 and 2017, when they studied more than two dozen communities in so-called flyover country by flying…

“An impulse for soon-to-be readers clutching a copy of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America will be to wonder whether they’ve visited or lived where James…

“Why Young Americans Are Increasingly Moving to Small Towns”

“Co-authoring a travel memoir can be tricky, but the Fallows team pulls it off like the professionals they are.”

“With Comcast thinking about a bid for 21CF, Disney is about to report earnings… With primaries in several states, James Fallows is here with some advice for reporters…”

“Many of the places they visited faced economic challenges, but they also met civic leaders and business owners who were revitalizing places with creative plans and new job opportunities.”

“Jim and Deborah Fallows recommend 6 books that depict “the heart of America”. And most of them were written before 1900.”

“Now comes veteran journalist James Fallows, writing in the May issue of The Atlantic and offering hope for the country. He and his wife, Deb, recently traveled the U.S. talking…

For more than four years, journalists James and Deborah Fallows traveled the country in a single-engine prop plane to learn from Americans in smaller communities. The married duo visited places…