No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

- James Fallows

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

- James Fallows

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American ba…

- James Fallows

Every previous era looks innocent.

- James Fallows

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most…

- James Fallows

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beaut…

- James Fallows

A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something…

- James Fallows

Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed be…

- James Fallows

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me …

- James Fallows