Welcome to 'Toilet Tuesday,' a Weekly Look at the Loos That Matter

Is there anything more fundamental to city life than public toilets? Group bathrooms like this ancient Roman one helped ring in the era of modern Western civilization. Corbusier considered the toilet "one of the most beautiful objects industry has produced," while Gandhi is said to have valued sanitation over independence.

So why don't news outlets devote more resources to the humble public bathroom? To help patch this sucking hole in the area of toilet coverage, today we kick off a weekly feature devoted to the latest and most piquant of privy news.