The Death and Afterlife of the Mall

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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