How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.  —  Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University.  —  There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better.

Team Trump: If We Ditch Kavanaugh, We're Signing Our Own ‘Death Warrant’  —  It's Judge Kavanaugh or bust.  —  For Donald Trump's White House, Brett Kavanaugh is increasingly irrelevant to the politics of his own Supreme Court nomination.  Instead, those close to the president view …

I Believe Her  —  “Dear Caitlin,” an inscription in my 12th-grade yearbook begins.  “I'm really very sorry that our friendship plummeted straight downhill after the first few months of school.  Really, the blame rests totally on my shoulders.  To tell you the truth, I've wanted to say this all year.

Brett Kavanaugh Defenders Are Sending A Message: Women Aren't People  —  Sometimes it feels as if the last two years have been an unending litany of stories about the trauma of sexual assault and its aftereffects.  The litany didn't start with the emergence of the #MeToo hashtag; it began earlier …

No, Brett Kavanaugh's mother didn't foreclose on his accuser's parents' house  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman, Christine Blasey Ford, when they were both in high school in the early 1980s.  Kavanaugh has now twice denied the allegations …

McConnell works feverishly behind the scenes to save Kavanaugh  —  The Senate leader's legacy on the judiciary is on the line.  —  Mitch McConnell, preeminent cut-throat political tactician, is going with a softer touch to salvage Brett Kavanaugh's suddenly endangered Supreme Court confirmation.

Don't repeat Anita Hill nightmare with Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford  —  Don't make Kavanaugh and Ford a reprise of Thomas and Hill.  What will it say to our daughters and sons if we once again only believe him and not her?  —  CONNECT  —  I spent a very long weekend …

A Spectral Witness Materializes  —  The passage of time sometimes causes people to forget, sometimes to invent or embellish.  —  The Salem witch trials turned on what was called “spectral evidence.”  That was testimony from witnesses—either malicious or hysterical—who claimed the accused …

Trump's Penis Looks Like Toad From Mario Kart, Says Stormy Daniels  —  Ever since Stormy Daniels said she was writing a tell-all book, there has been feverish anticipation about what dirt she'd reveal about Donald Trump—but it's safe to say no one predicted this.