"Monumental Failure"

I was wandering around the National Mall earlier today, which is a somewhat unusual experience for your typical actual resident of DC, and it's really just an incredibly ill-used public space in the middle of a big city. It reminded me of my colleague Josh Green's old-but-still-totally-true Washington Monthly article calling for National Mall reform.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/10/-monumental-failure/46738/