Q&A with UVM commencement speaker James Fallows

Journalist and author James Fallows is delivering the address at the University of Vermont’s 216th commencement ceremony today.
VTDigger caught up with Fallows for an interview from Washington, D.C., where he works as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. The following has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
In your 20s you were President Jimmy Carter’s speechwriter. How did that come about?
James Fallows. Courtesy photoThat was more or less by chance. Ther