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Breaking the News will be the home for regular posts, podcasts, photos, reader-mail, guest essays, and other dispatches from James Fallows—that’s me.

I am a long-time reporter and writer of books and magazine articles. At different times I’ve been a public radio commentator; once a White House speechwriter; and for two years a newsmagazine editor. In the 1990s, I was part of a software-design team at Microsoft; I’ve taught at a number of universities; and since the 1990s I’ve been an active instrument-rated private pilot.

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Recently I was part of an HBO filmmaking team and am co-founder of a new NGO.

I am originally from small-town southern California—Redlands, in San Bernardino County. With my wife, Deb, and our family I’ve spent more than a dozen years living and reporting from outside the United States, mainly in Japan, Malaysia, and China, plus England, Australia, Ghana, and other parts of Africa.

Within the United States we’ve lived for extended per