The sight of Black people rushing to the defense of an endangered Black person and the police responding by properly subduing the suspects, especially in a city with all the historical baggage Montgomery carries with it from the civil rights era, you gain a new appreciation of how the system can work, when it’s supposed to. You can see it in the tweets.

In his desperate pleas for federal help to deal with about 100,000 migrants who have come to New York City since the spring of 2022, Mayor Eric Adams is vindicating the hawkish position on immigration with almost every utterance.

I narrowed to three a list of interesting states. Minnesota, North Carolina and Virginia. Minnesota for Scandinavian culture and terrific cities, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth. North Carolina for diverse culture, mountains and the Outer Banks. But I settled on Virginia.