The Death and Afterlife of the Mall
November 21, 2019
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as posted by the channelOnce 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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