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The Death and Afterlife of the Mall

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November 21, 2019

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Once a cornerstone of American consumerism, shopping malls are now mostly ghost towns. In a new episode of The Idea File, staff writers Jim and Deb Fallows explore the phenomenon of the dead mall, and its emerging afterlife.

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