On the National Mall, ‘Democracy’ drips in daylight

What weighed 3,000 pounds at dawn’s early light in Washington and will virtually disappear by sundown?

The correct guess is a large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” placed on the National Mall on Wednesday morning in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder, its creators said, of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.