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Chantal Valery / AFP / Getty What Teens Think of the Kavanaugh Accusations
“They just keep saying ‘Boys will be boys.’ But I’m in high school—I don’t want that to happen to me.”
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Michelle McLoughlin / Reuters The Abandoned World of 1982
The year Brett Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford at a party saw the first stirrings of a revolution in how American girls were raised, and how they would regard themselves.
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Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post / ... My Rapist Apologized
The Kavanaugh allegations led me to reach out to the man who had assaulted me decades before.
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Illustration: Mike McQuade; Janek Skarzynski / AFP / ... A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.
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Hulton Archive / Stringer / Getty The Dad Joke Doctrine
There’s a distinct tone and dynamic that makes jokes “dad jokes,” and there may be a reason they’ve enjoyed a recent renaissance online.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Fix for America’s Housing Crisis
The Massachusetts Democrat introduced legislation that takes aim at segregation, redlining, restrictive zoning, and the loss of equity by low-income homeowners.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Rosenstein’s Departure Is a National Emergency
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is now in mortal peril.
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Jacob Stern Yale Law School’s Reckoning Over Brett Kavanaugh
Students and faculty staged a sit-in Monday in protest against President Trump’s nomination of the conservative appellate court judge, a 1990 Yale law graduate, to the Supreme Court.
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Stephen Chernin / Reuters With Instagram’s Founders Out, Welcome to Facebook, Inc
The company’s three high-profile acquisitions—Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus—had fought to maintain their own identities. Those days may be over now.
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its design / James Weston / Shutterstock / ... How The Great Gatsby Explains Trump
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel is a surprisingly apt primer on the president of the United States.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh’s Unusual Role in Defending Himself
Faced with sexual-assault allegations, he has been more aggressive in fighting for his Supreme Court nomination than most of his predecessors.
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Randall Hill / Reuters A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
The fall of a prominent behavioral scientist tells of a system where research is judged not on merit, but on the attention it gets.
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters The Myth of Authoritarian Competence
What trouble in Turkey reveals about the perils of strongman rule
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Aly Song / Reuters Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change
The company will begin estimating local carbon pollution from cities around the world.
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JAXA The Best-Ever Photos of an Asteroid’s Rugged Terrain
A Japanese mission has captured mesmerizing views of a distant space rock.
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Karl Tapales / Getty No One Knows Exactly What Would Happen If Mosquitoes Were to Disappear
A four-year experiment sets out to study the ecological consequences of a bold scheme to end malaria.
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Naples National Archeological Museum / Wikimedia Commons The Iliad Meets #MeToo in The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker’s retelling of the Homeric epic imagines the Trojan War from the perspective of a female slave fought over by two Greek heroes.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Republican Rush to Confirm Kavanaugh Backfired
Three new allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee show the dangers of a hasty process.
