James Fallows

James Fallows is an American writer, journalist, and editor best known for his long career at The Atlantic and his influential reporting on politics, culture, and technology Wikipedia. He is the author of eleven to twelve books, including National Defense (1981), which won the 1983 National Book Award, Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, (2009), China Airborne: The Test of China’s Future (2012), and the bestselling Our Towns (2018) co-written with his wife, Deborah Fallows. Our Towns was adapted into an HBO documentary in 2021. Fallows served as President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter from 1977 to 1978, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the role. He is a longtime national correspondent for The Atlantic, writing extensively on immigration, defense policy, economics, and technology. His 2002 Atlantic piece “Iraq: The Fifty-First State?” won the 2003 National Magazine Award. Fallows has contributed to Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and The American Prospect.