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Kavanaugh Battle Shows the Power, and the Limits, of #MeToo Movement
Christine Blasey Ford’s emergence shows how pivotal the movement has become, and how its dynamics have threaded their way into American life.
Details of F.B.I.’s Kavanaugh Inquiry Show Its Restricted Range
The F.B.I. will interview four witnesses about accusations of sexual assault against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as part of a background check.
Capitol Hill Ralph Club
Brett Kavanaugh faces his moment of truth in a town that doesn’t care about truth.
Fury Is a Political Weapon. And Women Need to Wield It.
What the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh showed us about who gets to be angry in public.
Brett Kavanaugh Loves His Beer
The Supreme Court nominee paired a frothy beverage with identity politics.
Kavanaugh Borrows From Trump’s Playbook on White Male Anger
For many conservatives, especially white men, angry responses Thursday by Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and Senator Lindsey Graham represented a welcome rebuke to a hostile…
Make My Sexual Assault Count
What America owes women right now.
Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory
It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it.
Women Have a Message for Washington
In the year of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearing set off outrage in the nation’s capital.
At Times, Kavanaugh’s Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point
The New York Times fact-checked his testimony, and what emerges is the image of a skilled lawyer who dissembled when pressed on certain accusations.