Courage is contagious. Here are few of the people who have stood up for our democracy and values this very week, setting an example for the rest of us.| Breaking the News
How it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away.| Breaking the News
Two questions and answers about this moment in our country's history, and where we stand.| fallows.substack.com
Donald Trump cares only about imagery. Here is what happens when a foreign leader understands images far better than Trump does. And what images reveal about MAGA's bogus commitment to ‘safety’ in DC.| Breaking the News
In 1989 Donald Trump rushed to false judgment about the Central Park Five. In 2025 he claims that ‘roving mobs of wild youth’ have terrorized and ruined the capital. Once again he is wrong.| fallows.substack.com
Steps toward defending our institutions. An extension from personal to public life.| fallows.substack.com
American institutions, for all their flaws, have protected our people. Now the institutions need our help.| fallows.substack.com
Several alarming possibilities have receded. One that's alarming in a different way has emerged. A guide to what investigators have learned, and what news the flying public should pay attention to.| Breaking the News
What it takes to open doors, in communities accustomed to thinking that doors are closed.| Breaking the News
Books, films, speeches, interviews on how we got here, and where else we can go.| Breaking the News
A discussion with David Litt, 20-something speechwriter for Obama and author of a wonderful new book—not about politics. In a blurb I call it "an instant classic." In our discussion I explain why.| Breaking the News
William Langewiesche, famed writer and aviator, was the real thing. The man chosen to lead US aviation is not.| Breaking the News
California's agricultural Central Valley—so rich in output, so poor in median income—is the focal point of trends in immigration, in education, in political trends, in sustainability.| Breaking the News
Chinese leaders have tried to sandblast away awkward chapters from their modern history. Here some parts Americans need to learn about—especially now.| Breaking the News
'In the life of the human spirit, words are action,' a US president said long ago. Let's look at words from a cabinet secretary who doesn't know what 'habeas corpus' means, vs. a university that does.| Breaking the News
Stories that offer guidance for the days ahead.| Breaking the News
What might actually stop Trump? Let's go through some possibilities—which finally come down to each of us.| fallows.substack.com
One thing we don't know, many things we do know. And some models for a better stage of American history that could be ahead.| fallows.substack.com
Let's not talk about "how this plays" as politics. Let's think about the way leaders address the public when the stakes are high and the outcome is unknown. We saw this week how it should be done.| fallows.substack.com
Ten questions and answers as we enter the aerial equivalent of the school crossing-guard era.| fallows.substack.com
Should you worry about getting on an airline flight tomorrow? No. Should you worry that the Golden Age of phenomenally safe flying may be nearing its end? Yes.| fallows.substack.com
Watch in real time, as American higher ed goes on offense to defend itself.| fallows.substack.com
Harvard is the US's oldest and richest university. In dealing with Trump, it first tried 'obeying in advance.' Today it decided instead to stand up and stand firm.| fallows.substack.com
Individuals are taking the lead. They can show institutions the way. Ongoing chronicles of resistance.| fallows.substack.com
Tariffs are like military actions. They're ‘good’ or ‘bad’ based on specifics: Why, how, at what cost, toward what end. Donald Trump has just committed US power in a profoundly stupid way.| fallows.substack.com
In the baffling haze of dealing with ‘everything, all the time,' a few clear signals of where to take a stand. Let's start with Democrats all voting NO on a blank check for Elon Musk.| fallows.substack.com
What he said was disturbing. The way he said it was worse. What I learned from these 100 long minutes.| fallows.substack.com
The most recent aviation disasters were not the new administration's fault. The next ones likely will be.| fallows.substack.com
The Panama Canal and its home country should be newly important to Americans. But in the opposite way from what Donald Trump has been talking about.| fallows.substack.com
“It really is nothing new, but you are watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.” Writers and thinkers on where the denial of reality can lead.| fallows.substack.com
His first book was called ‘Why Not the Best?’ His best is what he has given through all these years.| fallows.substack.com