Goodnight, RFK: How Washington’s Crumbling Colosseum Mirrors the World’s Waning Empires
RFK Stadium, the concrete bruise squatting on the banks of Washington’s Anacostia River, is finally being put out of its misery. Demolition crews are already nibbling at its 1961 bones, and within a year the only thing left will be a pile of rebar and a faint smell of stale beer and broken dreams. To…