Donald Trump prioritized a July 4 deadline over technical curing times for the Reflecting Pool, resulting in a botched installation and the wrongful prosecution of David Hearn.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
By dismissing the case against David Hearn with prejudice, Judge Todd Edelman stopped executive pressure from reviving a meritless prosecution.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The American tendency, when faced with inconvenient truths about institutional failure, is to locate a scapegoat.
By Emilio Quesada ·
There are certain sites in a city—monuments, public spaces—that function less as mere architecture and more as shared cultural memory.
By Elena Rossi ·
I rarely find myself so thoroughly disappointed by the American machinery of justice. It is tiresome, frankly, to watch powerful institutions mistake visible damage for criminal intent.
By Adele Rutherford ·