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James Fallows

James Fallows is a longtime writer for the Atlantic. He has written twelve books, including National Defense, and, most recently, Our Towns, with his wife, Deborah Fallows. He was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 1972 to 1974, along with Walter Shapiro.