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Sexual assault
Sexual assault news and analysis from The Nation
February 20, 2020
Our reporter offers a view from the public line at the Weinstein trial.
January 29, 2020
“It's a return, if you will, to the dark ages,” one civil rights advocate says.
January 28, 2020
Remembering Kobe’s greatness isn’t incompatible with acknowledging his flaws.
January 24, 2020
A first in the country and built from the ground up by students, Brown University’s Transformative Justice Program addresses harm on campus without relying on the punitive legal system.
December 31, 2019
Was it love? A search for validation and empowerment? Or was he taking advantage?
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November 18, 2019
In the absence of a full reckoning, conspiracy theories about Epstein fester and allow the far right to exploit the popular mistrust of elites.
October 3, 2019
Chanel Miller’s brilliant account of her assault by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner questions the way we treat sexual assault—and sex itself.
September 23, 2019
A player accused of sexual assault leaves the NFL with a tweetstorm pointing out the league’s rampant hypocrisy.
September 23, 2019
In her new book, philosopher Kate Manne insists that what’s important is not what men intended but how women experience misogyny.
September 17, 2019
In Mexico, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and public officials are all trying to prevent rape survivors from accessing legal abortion.