Stephen Pearson (Ohio): The Last Bastion of Colonialism: Appalachian Settler Colonialism and Self-Indigenization. From Preservation, a look at America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Greg Freiherr on Alaska’s crash epidemic: How technology and an FAA regional office ended it. Ben Schiller on mapping the most hate-filled places in America. Frack to the future: Can small-town North Dakota survive an oil boom? The case for regional immigration: Leon Neyfakh on a bold new proposal — send American newcomers where they’re needed. The introduction to Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future by Robert Wuthnow. Scott Galupo on how Atlantic City embraces monkey on its back. Robert D. Kaplan on an homage to the Lower 48. Nicole Flatow on how several Colorado counties want to form 51st state to avoid environmental protections. Edward McClelland on how white people killed Detroit: Racial division, suburban exodus and a barren tax base have left one solution — make the suburbs merge with the city. Robert Greene reviews The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community by Miles Orvell. Goodbye, Miami: By century's end, rising sea levels will turn the nation's urban fantasyland into an American Atlantis — but long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin. Wiki Wormhole: Explore a list of every U.S. city nickname.
