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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Phil McCarten / AP Images Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Careers That Weren’t
The women who have accused the famed science educator of sexual impropriety have made claims not just about traumatized minds, but also about traumatized careers.
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Gus Ruelas / Reuters CBS’s Les Moonves Problem Isn’t Solved
A new report on the former chief executive suggests how much more work needs to be done at the network that enabled him.
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David J. Phillip / AP The Soft Lighting of a President's Legacy
Embedded in the 41st president’s legacy are tensions about the nature of presidential celebrity.
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How to Look Away
People are finding new ways to ignore the stories clamoring for their attention.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters The End of The Clinton Affair
The scandal that led to an impeachment helped shape the America of 2018. Twenty years later, however, it also serves as a reminder of the stubbornness of the status quo.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Plain Black Jacket Became a Controversy
The backlash against the incoming congresswoman’s “very nice” outfit is both tedious and predictable.
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Steve Liss / The LIFE Images Collection / ... Remembering Matthew Shepard in Today’s Climate of Hate
During a time that finds Americans grappling anew with the horrors of normalized bigotry, the icon’s personal belongings have found a new home at the Smithsonian.
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Alex Staroseltsev / Shutterstock The Real Metaphor of the ‘Blue Wave’
During the midterms, a small phrase suggested a bigger problem: America still isn’t sure how to talk to itself.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty / Katie ... Sean Hannity Is Trump's Shadow Press Secretary
The Fox star finally dispenses with the polite fiction that he is anything more than the president’s puppet.
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Rick Bowmer / Evan Vucci / Manuel Balce ... The Attention Games
What Americans choose to concentrate on, now more than ever, is an ethical matter.
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Phillip Faraone / Getty for Fortune / The ... Megyn Kelly’s Original Sin
The host, now leaving NBC, claimed that her morning show would be apolitical. It was a convenient act from the beginning.
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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.
