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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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.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters / Katie Martin / ... The Lasting Trauma of Alex Jones’s Lies
The systems that have for so long helped to enforce the notion of collective truth in America are no longer sufficient: Deception is everywhere. And it is dangerous.
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Alan Schein / Getty The Dangerous Insufficiency of ‘No Means No’
Again and again, #MeToo stories have involved men who are skilled at respecting the letter of the law—and much worse at respecting the spirit.
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Dennis Van Tine / STAR MAX / IPx ... Les Moonves and the Familiarity Fallacy
The CBS chief’s associates have been offering a common defense: that the man they know simply wouldn’t do the things he is alleged to have done.
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Julie Jacobson / AP Roseanne, Hannity, and the One Joke That Reveals So Much
Appearing on Fox News on Thursday, Barr offered a non-apology to Valerie Jarrett. And then she mocked Jarrett’s haircut.
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FabrikaSimf / Shutterstock In the Land of Willful Amnesia
Sean Spicer lied with impunity. The White House applies revisionism to even the most recent of histories. Americans are constantly being asked—and constantly being primed—to forget.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Chip Somodevilla / ... The World Burns. Sarah Sanders Says This Is Fine.
The White House press secretary has set a new precedent: Partisanship over patriotism. Victory over truth.
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George Rinhart / Getty The Problem With Happy Endings
From tidy stories of reunited migrant families to #PlaneBae, Americans’ bias toward optimism is a wonderful thing—until it’s not.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh, Jim Jordan, and the Fog of the Partisan
It's a slippery slope when weighty matters get dissolved into claims of bias and fakery.
