The #MeToo Movement

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

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One Year of #MeToo: How the Movement Eludes Government Surveillance in China
The New Yorker - Han Zhang
A number of self-organized grassroots networks have sprouted up to provide resources and rapport for women through social media and chat groups, where censorship is easier to elude. Xianzi was a college...
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too
The New Yorker - Katy Waldman
How do we think about the fact that so many boldface names in publishing and literature are female—and, still, we live in a world that hates women? It has been a year of math. How many less-famous women...
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo
The New Yorker - David Remnick
To mark a tumultuous year, we asked our writers to look back on #MeToo in order to anticipate what could—or should—come next. Sexual assault and sexual harassment have been sources of pain and suffering...
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: A Modest Proposal to Help Combat Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry
The New Yorker - Helen Rosner
Getting any action widely implemented in the restaurant world would be radical in its own way; if it were something that speaks directly and unflinchingly to the problem it would be more radical still....
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: We Need a More Inclusive Language of Abuse and Victimhood
The New Yorker - Doreen St. Félix
History has shown us that when the left does not heed its most marginalized groups, it loses. Geometry has only ever confused me. Presented with the simplest ideas about space and shape, I get agitated...
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: Punishing Individual Abusers Is Not the Same as Justice
The New Yorker - Masha Gessen
If there is anything the past year has taught us, it’s that it is impossible to punish all the powerful men who abuse women. It began with the mesmerizing spectacle of dominoes falling: Harvey Weinstein,...
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies
The New Yorker - Allyson Hobbs
Despite the tradition of activism by black women, white women have often played the protagonists in the history of sexual violence, and black women have been relegated to the supporting cast. Twenty-seven...
Oct 10, 2018
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One Year of #MeToo: What Women’s Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
Is this profound collective reckoning with the extent to which men have been allowed to abuse their power an epochal shift toward a more equal society or a fleeting moment that cannot last? During the...
Oct 10, 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
Lawyers for Deborah Ramirez tried to schedule calls about her coöperation with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Throughout Thursday’s Senate hearing on Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual-misconduct allegation...
Sep 28, 2018
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The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment
The New Yorker - Doreen St. Félix
What we witnessed on Thursday was the Republican Party testing how far its politics of entitlement can go. And there is no limit. Judge Brett Kavanaugh is almost certainly going to be appointed the next...
Sep 27, 2018
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How the Kavanaugh Nomination Has Intensified the Feminist Protest Movement
The New Yorker - Emily Witt
The protests against Kavanaugh’s nomination began in early August, and hundreds have been arrested since then. On Monday morning, several hundred protesters gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court,...
Sep 26, 2018
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Julie Chen-Moonves and the Meaning of a Wife’s Loyalty
The New Yorker - Doreen St. Félix
The humiliations of a wife who “stands by” her husband are well known to Americans, but the momentum of #MeToo has made the role particularly vexed. What’s in a name? For Julie Chen, the CBS personality,...
Sep 24, 2018
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The Feigned Victimhood of Bill Cosby, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas
The New Yorker - Jelani Cobb
On Tuesday, a spokesman for Cosby called the comedian and Kavanaugh fellow-victims of a “sex war.” If so, Thomas is the link between them. Just after William Henry Cosby, the comedian, actor, philanthropist,...
Sep 26, 2018
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Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the Things Men Do for Other Men
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
In high schools, in colleges, at law schools, and in the halls of Washington, men perform for one another and ascend to positions of power. One of the most notable qualities of the infamous “Access Hollywood”...
Sep 26, 2018
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After the Kavanaugh Allegations, Republicans Offer a Shocking Defense: Sexual Assault Isn’t a Big Deal
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
A startling number of conservatives have ended up in the peculiar position of defending the right of a Supreme Court Justice to have previously attempted to commit rape. Ever since the professor Christine...
Sep 20, 2018
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Why Senator Mazie Hirono Asked a Crucial Question at the Kavanaugh Hearing
The New Yorker - Osita Nwanevu
The Democratic senator said that she asked the Supreme Court nominee about sexual misconduct because “I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.” On the second day of Brett Kavanaugh’s...
Sep 24, 2018
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The Boys’ Club That Protects Brett Kavanaugh
The New Yorker - Emily Witt
In the world of élite prep schools, high school doesn’t end when you’re eighteen; it’s a lifelong circle of mutual support, an in-crowd of people who take care of one another. A C-SPAN clip has been circulating...
Sep 22, 2018
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Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s College...
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
A Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s describes a dormitory party gone awry and a drunken incident that she wants the F.B.I. to investigate. As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh,...
Sep 23, 2018
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What #MeToo Hasn’t Changed for Christine Blasey Ford
The New Yorker - Moira Donegan
A new, more careful Republican strategy has emerged since the time of Anita Hill: Brett Kavanaugh is honorable, and Ford merely confused. Christine Blasey Ford requested anonymity when she first wrote...
Sep 20, 2018
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Anton Chekhov on the Road
The New Yorker - Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm on the playwright’s journeys. 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...
Oct 21, 2001
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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...
May 7, 2018
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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...
Jul 27, 2018
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Leslie Moonves Steps Down from CBS, After Six Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
The allegations include claims that Moonves forced them to perform oral sex on him, that he exposed himself to them without their consent, and that he used intimidation against them. Update: Three hours...
Sep 9, 2018
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A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress
The New Yorker - Ronan Farrow
A letter describing an incident when Kavanaugh was in high school was forwarded to Senator Dianne Feinstein, who initially decided not to publicize or share it with colleagues. On Thursday, Senate Democrats...
Sep 14, 2018
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Sexual Violence
Jian Ghomeshi, John Hockenberry, and the Laws of Patriarchal Physics
The New Yorker - Jia Tolentino
Nearly a year after the start of #MeToo, two essays, published in prestigious liberal magazines, signal that the power structures facilitating sexual assault and harassment remain very much intact. The...
Sep 17, 2018
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Sep 19, 2018
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Bill Cosby’s Crimes and the Impact of #MeToo on the American Legal System
The New Yorker - Jeannie Suk Gersen
Anticipating the decision in Cosby’s retrial for sexual-assault charges was like girding for a verdict on the #MeToo movement itself. The retrial of Bill Cosby, on charges of sexually assaulting Andrea...
Apr 27, 2018
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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...
Apr 6, 2018
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Russia Finally Gets Its #MeToo Moment
The New Yorker - Masha Gessen
During the past month, several women have accused Leonid Slutsky, a prominent member of parliament, of sexual harassment. The #MeToo moment has arrived in Russia. It took months longer than it did for...
Mar 23, 2018