James Fallowsis a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he has worked for more than 25 years. His work appears frequently in the magazine and online at http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/. He has written 10 books and has been published in most of the major magazines of the United States, and appears as a regular analyst on National Public Radio. He was the founding Chairman of the New America Foundation, now an influential Washington think tank, and frequently appears as a speaker and moderator at technology and political conferences, including The Atlantic’s Ideas Festivals and Google’s Zeitgeist conferences. During his tenure at The Atlantic, he has published eight books: National Defense, More Like Us, Looking at the Sun, Breaking the News, Free Flight, Blind into Baghdad, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, and his latest, China Airborne. He has written two other books, The Wat