In “Our Towns,” excerpted in “The Atlantic,” James and Deborah Fallows describe a five-year odyssey visiting the American outback — places like Sioux Falls, S.D., Holland,Michigan, Bend, Oregon, Greenville, S.C., Duluth, Minn., Dodge City, Kansas, Allentown, PA., and a dozen … Continue reading
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Our polarized politics has reached an extreme in the Age of Trump, but the forces at play are eternal. Government is supposed to provide benefits to the governed. What do the people want? On the most rudimentary level, freedom to … Continue reading
The latest act in the American soap opera is the Omarosa-Trump spat. An untrustworthy graduate of the Reality TV school of Trump writes a tell-all book and appears on TV to promote it with surreptitiously recorded White House tapes. Her … Continue reading