Joy's House! (An Image Lab Joint)

Joy's House! (An Image Lab Joint)

The Reflecting Pool knows exactly what America has become

The landmark was built to reflect the nation’s monuments. Increasingly, it appears to be reflecting the nation itself.

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The Abraham Lincoln Reflecting Pool - promises vs. reality

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has spent recent weeks battling algae, paint, closures, alleged tampering, fixes, complaints about the fixes, and complaints about the complaints. In a healthier political era, this would have been the sort of minor bureaucratic headache that generated a local…

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