From a Michael Schaffer Capital City column on politico.com headlined “The Political Fight Over the National Mall’s Most Exclusive Real Estate”:

Should museums devoted to American women and Latinos get space on the National Mall? The question is preoccupying bureaucrats, lawmakers and permanent-Washington elites this fall as the two new museums vie for real estate on an iconic landscape increasingly populated by memorials and museums focused on identity groups.

Technically just a wonky debate about land use, the scrum is worth paying attention to because what’s going on says a lot about identity politics in America and raw power in Washington.