US Politics
The Sledgehammer and the Latte: How America's Toilet Wars Reveal a Nation's Soul
The once-banished scourge of pay toilets has returned in a new, privatized form, with corporations like Starbucks now effectively charging the public for a basic necessity, exacerbating inequality and creating public health risks. This shocking regression from the hard-won victories of the free toilet movement represents a profound failure of civic imagination and a betrayal of the fundamental right to dignified public infrastructure.
