Like many airplane rides, this timely book is a bit of a bumpy journey: smooth takeoff and landing, with some turbulence along the way. A national correspondent for ...

James Fallows is a staff writer for The Atlantic Magazine. Inaugural speeches, especially for new presidents, boil down to telling two stories: Who we are, as a country; and who I am, as the person ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Breaking the News" writer James Fallows says political gun murders have written too much of the American story. But when ...

While President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have been in freefall since January, according to former Jimmy Carter ...

James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, the married authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America (Pantheon, 413 pp., ★★½ out of four), believe that America needs a book like ...

News analyst and The Atlantic correspondent James Fallows also happens to be an instrument-rated pilot. Fallows gives host Guy Raz an explanation of the technical problems associated with flying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few people would remember now, but the Jimmy Carter who sprang from obscurity to the White House had magic. His piercing blue eyes ...

Much of our national dialogue in recent years has focused on the America left behind: the working-class towns, the backwoods communities, the places abandoned by capitalism that seemingly had no ...

“So my future in the newspaper business depends on faith?” Howard Kurtz asked Mr. Fallows at one point. “Well, yes,” said Mr. Fallows. “But actually, you know, there is a way in which our business is ...

As we end another violent week in America, thoughts this morning from veteran journalist James Fallows, author of 12 books and the man behind Breaking the News on Substack: The ordinary days or weeks ...

Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at age 100. James Fallows, who was a White House speechwriter during the Carter administration, has thoughts on the passing of a most singular president: Few ...