James Fallows

James Fallows

National Correspondent, The Atlantic, Socrates Program

James Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He is currently a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of…

James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States and once worked as President Carter’s chief speechwriter. Fallows has written ten books, including Blind into Baghdad, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, and, most recently, China Airborne: The Test of China’s Future. He has won the National Magazine Award, the American Book Award, and a New York Emmy for a documentary series on China. Fallows has done regular commentary for NPR since the 1980s.