The Reflecting Pool Is Weirdly Indicative of a Greater Environmental Problem

From the Portland Press-Herald: This is obviously a brutal whack at local economies and, in the way of these things, it's the people at the industry's most basic level that are hurt the worst. The president blamed imaginary vandals for all the problems that bedeviled this particular vanity project. However, the president and his administration are the primary vandals when it comes to environmental damage, large and small.

The study of algal blooms has suffered under this administration the same way so many environmental programs have. From The New Republic: Swamplike, eh? What a handy metaphor that has turned out to be.