Megan Garber
The Phantom Reckoning
From Les Moonves to Louis C.K. to so many others implicated in #MeToo, there have been many performances of accountability theater. But those in power have repeatedly proven themselves unwilling to make amends.
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John Minchillo / AP Trump’s Attacks on Stormy Daniels Echo an Uncomfortable Era
The president’s rampant mockery of women flashes back to an earlier period of American history: when Monica Lewinsky served, repeatedly, as a national punch line.
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David Giesbrecht / Warner Bros. Entertainment What Happened When Murphy Brown Tried to Tackle Sexual Assault
The rebooted show’s #MeToo episode was careful and cartoonish in equal measure.
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Win McNamee / Pool / Reuters Christine Blasey Ford Didn’t Come Forward in Vain
Over the course of two wrenching weeks, the woman sometimes caricatured as “Kavanaugh’s accuser” transformed from the most private of figures to the most public. She did not sacrifice—her image, her self—for nothing.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Most Striking Thing About Trump's Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford
The president’s jokes at the expense of the woman who told her story of sexual assault are yet another reminder: Laughter is a luxury. And, often, a weapon.
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Andrew Harnik / Reuters / Shutterstock / The ... The Pernicious Double Standards Around Brett Kavanaugh’s Drinking
Thursday’s Senate hearing served as a reminder of the blithe impunity afforded to those privileged enough to have whole systems invested in their success.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty For Christine Blasey Ford to Be Believable, She Had to Be ‘Likable’
The professor’s moving testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee has been, on top of so much else, a reminder of a pernicious stipulation given to women.
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Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty / Katie Martin / ... This Is Not the End of the Cosby Story
The comedian has been sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for the rape of Andrea Constand. But as she and her family eloquently insisted during this week’s hearing: The effects of his crime will live on.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters #WhyIDidntReport and the Weaponization of Haste
Immovable deadlines. Defenses that pivot around the question of “last minute” allegations. Allies of Brett Kavanaugh have been attempting to make a scapegoat of time itself.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Magical-Thinking Defenses of Brett Kavanaugh
CSI: Beltway. Doppelgängers. Zillow. The theories offered on behalf of the Supreme Court nominee have come to suggest a determined resistance to a changing world.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Logical Fallacy of Christine Blasey Ford’s ‘Choice’
Since coming forward with allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, the professor has faced doxxings and death threats. Now she’s also been given a misguided ultimatum to testify.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters ‘I’d Do Her’: Mike Bloomberg and the Underbelly of #MeToo
Disparaging comments. Demeaning jokes. As the mogul reportedly considers a 2020 presidential run, it remains an open question whether his long-alleged history of undermining women will affect his chances.
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Eric Jamison / Invision for the Television Academy ... The Slow Death of the Red-Carpet Show
The pre-show before the 2018 Emmy Awards seemed to be confused about its own point.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh and the Revealing Logic of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
The discussion now swirling around the Supreme Court nominee asks an insidious question: Is sexual assault simply the way of the world?
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Noah K. Murray / AP I’m Still Confused About ‘Miss America 2.0’
Sunday night’s revamped version of the nearly 100-year-old competition was a dizzying and at times spellbinding collision of determined progress and regressive tradition.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Why the Les Moonves Departure Is Not Enough
The powerful CBS chief is exiting the company after a new round of sexual-misconduct allegations. It’s a big deal—but it’s not the full deal.
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Brad Barket / Invision / AP Louis C.K. and the Men Who Keep Getting What They Want
The #MeToo comebacks are coming. And they’re revolving, once again, around the desires of those who needed to negotiate the returns in the first place.
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Julie Jacobson / Reuters If You Watch Nothing Else of Who Is America?, Watch the Segment With O.J. Simpson
The finale of the Sacha Baron Cohen series mingled slaughter and laughter to horrific—and revealing—effect.
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Zolotarevs / Shutterstock Poetry Is Everywhere
Far from “going extinct,” as it was once predicted, poems are viral, vital—and invincible.
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Jacob Yakob / LD Entertainment For the Love of Dogs
Dog Days is a mediocre schlockfest that, despite and because of its saccharine predictability, is a very good boy.
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Jae C. Hong / AP And Then No One on the CBS Earnings Call Asked Les Moonves About Harassment
Americans have been conditioned to draw dangerous lines: money on the one side, morality on the other.
