The #MeToo Movement

The New Yorker's reporting on the #MeToo movement, including Rowan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Harvey Weinstein.

By The New Yorker

One Year of #MeToo: How the Movement Eludes Government Surveillance in China
The New Yorker - Han Zhang
Xianzi was a college junior interning at CCTV, China’s national television network, when she found herself sitting alone backstage with the famous talk-show host Zhu Jun. With the door to his dressing
Oct 12, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too
The New Yorker - Katy Waldman
It has been a year of math. How many less-famous women equal one famous man? How many female words of accusation equal how many male words of denial? How many reported articles does it take to topple network
Oct 12, 2018
One Year of #MeToo
The New Yorker - David Remnick
Sexual assault and sexual harassment have been sources of pain and suffering for countless centuries, but the #MeToo movement began just a year ago. Journalism has played a role in this. On October 10,
Oct 12, 2018
One Year of #MeToo: A Modest Proposal to Help Combat Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry
The New Yorker - Helen Rosner
In February of 2017, at a riotous Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, the Times-Picayune journalist Brett Anderson got a story tip that led him to allegations of sexual misconduct at the Besh Restaurant
Oct 12, 2018
One Year of #MeToo: We Need a More Inclusive Language of Abuse and Victimhood
The New Yorker - Doreen St. Félix
Geometry has only ever confused me. Presented with the simplest ideas about space and shape, I get agitated and dim. But there is one concept that I think I understand: the asymptote. The asymptote is
Oct 12, 2018
One Year of #MeToo: Punishing Individual Abusers Is Not the Same as Justice
The New Yorker - Masha Gessen
It began with the mesmerizing spectacle of dominoes falling: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Russell Simmons, and so on, name after famous face, all disgraced by end
Oct 12, 2018
One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies
The New Yorker - Allyson Hobbs
Twenty-seven years after Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, Anita Hill recalled that the most wrenching part of her testimony was not being asked by an all-white, all-male judiciary committee to
Oct 12, 2018
One Year of #MeToo: What Women’s Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
During the past year, I have grown increasingly uneasy with a fairly common bit of semantic slippage: in headlines, in think pieces, and on social media, many people use the phrases “#MeToo movement” “#MeToo
Oct 12, 2018
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E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser’s Effort to Give Testimony
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
Throughout Thursday’s Senate hearing on Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual-misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee claimed that they had tried in vain to secure
Sep 28, 2018
The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment
The New Yorker - Doreen St. Félix
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is almost certainly going to be appointed the next member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Whatever Christine Blasey Ford said in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary
Sep 28, 2018
How the Kavanaugh Nomination Has Intensified the Feminist Protest Movement
The New Yorker - Emily Witt
On Monday morning, several hundred protesters gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court, wearing ponchos and huddling under umbrellas to shelter themselves from the rain. They listened quietly as several
Sep 27, 2018
Julie Chen-Moonves and the Meaning of a Wife’s Loyalty
The New Yorker - Doreen St. Félix
What’s in a name? For Julie Chen, the CBS personality, who is married to Leslie Moonves, it is a code of fealty. Earlier this month, four days after Moonves resigned from his position as the chairman CBS,
Sep 25, 2018
The Feigned Victimhood of Bill Cosby, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas
The New Yorker - Jelani Cobb
Just after William Henry Cosby, the comedian, actor, philanthropist, and, as of this year, convicted felon and sex offender, was led away from a courthouse in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday,
Sep 27, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the Things Men Do for Other Men
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
One of the most notable qualities of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, leaked to the Washington Post a month before the 2016 Presidential election, was the bizarre, awkward, three-toddlers-in-a-trenchcoat
Sep 27, 2018
After the Kavanaugh Allegations, Republicans Offer a Shocking Defense: Sexual Assault Isn’t a Big Deal
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
Ever since the professor Christine Blasey Ford revealed that she was the woman who had accused the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, in a previously confidential letter, the conservative
Sep 25, 2018
Why Senator Mazie Hirono Asked a Crucial Question at the Kavanaugh Hearing
The New Yorker - Osita Nwanevu
On the second day of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, two weeks ago, Senator Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, pursued a line of questioning that now like
Sep 25, 2018
The Boys’ Club That Protects Brett Kavanaugh
The New Yorker - Emily Witt
A C-SPAN clip has been circulating online. It dates from September 6th, the third day of the Senate hearings to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In the video, John Neely Kennedy, the Republican
Sep 25, 2018
Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation of sexual misconduct against
Sep 25, 2018
What #MeToo Hasn’t Changed for Christine Blasey Ford
The New Yorker - Moira Donegan
Christine Blasey Ford requested anonymity when she first wrote a letter to her congressional representative Anna Eshoo, and, later, to Senator Dianne Feinstein, of California, describing an incident at
Sep 20, 2018
Three Journeys
The New Yorker - Janet Malcolm
In the winter of 1897, when the consumptive Anton Chekhov was living in Nice on doctor’s orders, he was asked by a Russian editor to write a story “on a subject taken from life abroad.” Chekhov declined,
Sep 19, 2018
Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse
The New Yorker - Jane Mayer
Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own. Update: Three hours after the publication of this
Sep 19, 2018
Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company. For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives
Sep 19, 2018
As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Six Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, CNN reported that Moonves would step down from his position at CBS. Later the same day, CBS announced that Moonves had left the company and would
Sep 19, 2018
A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
On Thursday, Senate Democrats disclosed that they had referred a complaint regarding President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the F.B.I. for investigation. The complaint came
Sep 19, 2018
Jian Ghomeshi, John Hockenberry, and the Laws of Patriarchal Physics
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
The sexual-assault allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein were first reported in October, 2017, which means that we have now spent eleven months listening to the victims of such violence,
Sep 19, 2018
“The Tale,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Daring Excavation of Her Own Memories of Sexual Abuse
The New Yorker - Richard Brody
Jennifer Fox’s drama “The Tale” (which came out on HBO last Saturday) is a story in the vein of the #MeToo movement that is set nearly a decade before it became the focus of a global cultural reckoning.
Sep 19, 2018
Bill Cosby’s Crimes and the Impact of #MeToo on the American Legal System
The New Yorker - Jeannie Suk Gersen
The retrial of Bill Cosby, on charges of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, ended yesterday with a guilty verdict. Cosby has been convicted of three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault:
Sep 19, 2018
What About “The Breakfast Club”?
The New Yorker - Molly Ringwald
Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo. Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version
Sep 19, 2018
Russia Finally Gets Its #MeToo Moment
The New Yorker - Masha Gessen
The #MeToo moment has arrived in Russia. It took months longer than it did for many other countries that often take cultural cues from the United States. But, considering the near-total obliteration of
Sep 19, 2018