Megan Garber
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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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Craig Ruttle / Redux ‘Alleged’ No Longer
Harvey Weinstein was tried over the past two months. So were regressive ideas about what sexual violence really looks like.
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Mason Foster / The Atlantic Whistleblower: When a Memoir Is Also an Indictment
The book from the former Uber engineer Susan Fowler is an intimate first-person account that doubles as a warning.
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malerapaso / Getty / Paul Spella / The ... The Weinstein Trial and the Lies of Due Process
The constitutional term may be rooted in reason. In practice, it can look a lot uglier.
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Heritage Images / Getty Boredom Is Winning
The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is merely the latest reminder: American politics has become uncomfortably numb.
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John Taggart / Redux Harvey Weinstein’s Pain
As his criminal trial begins, the mogul seems to believe that the language of pain used by his accusers applies just as readily to himself.
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Netflix / The Atlantic Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix Show Is Painful to Watch
The streaming service has turned the star’s controversial e-commerce brand into a series. Soft-lit chaos ensues.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty / Shutterstock / The ... Harvey Weinstein Haunted the Golden Globes
The glittering ceremony took place on the eve of the Hollywood mogul’s criminal trial. You wouldn’t have known that from watching the show.
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Lionsgate The Most Powerful Scene in Bombshell
And why it’s not enough
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Hulton Archive / Getty / The Atlantic I Can’t Stop Watching Frasier. I Can’t Stop Thinking About Maris.
The invisible woman of the classic sitcom, which leaves Netflix at the end of the year, is a case study in the way TV shows can turn people into punch lines.
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Jeenah Moon / Getty Harvey Weinstein’s Sympathy Campaign
As the accused rapist prepares for his criminal trial, his interactions with the media have emphasized his smallness—even as his words have remained defiant.
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Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic The Bittersweet Lessons of Law & Order: SVU
Twenty years into its run, the show has fallen prey to a revealing paradox: As it has grown in relevance, it has lost its urgency.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Why Isn't a Rape Allegation Worth an Impeachment Inquiry?
On the selective accountabilities of the Trump hearings
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Fox News Covered the Impeachment Hearings in the Fox Newsiest Way Possible
The network that helped put Donald Trump into power is now showing how insistently it will work to keep him there.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Sexism Is Getting Sneakier
Is Elizabeth Warren overly “angry”? The media are just asking questions.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why the Assault Allegations Against Trump Don’t Stick
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against the president pushes up against an obdurate truth: His very ubiquity has afforded him a kind of impunity.
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Chloe Scheffe Sorry, Not Sorry
Why public figures stopped apologizing
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Larnce Gold / Getty Two Tales of Booing. Two Very Different Views.
Harvey Weinstein’s detractors were told to “shut up.” Donald Trump’s hecklers were dismissed as “un-American.” What are the men’s defenders so afraid of?
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Boston Globe / Getty James Foley’s Mother Is Grateful Baghdadi Is Dead
The journalist wanted to understand Syrians who had no voice. ISIS murdered him.
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Photography Tristan Brazier / Getty The Ongoing Horror of #MeToo
She Said, Catch and Kill, and other new books tell stories of monsters brought to account. But their defining mood is not exultation—it’s terror.
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Peter Kramer / HBO The Bodily Horrors of Succession
Infestation. Insects. Ointment. This is not the stuff you might expect from a work of prestige TV that takes extreme wealth as its subject.
