Events

New Republic staff writer and author Monica Potts moved from Arkansas to Upstate New York three years ago. It didn't take her long to learn how a functioning, adequately-funded government is so much better than the alternative:

(Do we still call them mixtapes?)

For the next 10 months or so, I'm squeezed into 60 m² (646 sq.ft.) with about one third of my belongings. (Somehow all of Cassie's toys fit, though.) I have to say, though, this view is quite the salve: