Christine Blasey Ford

Once the Senate Republicans decided to countenance demagoguery, one step led to another.

The members of the Illuminator collective travel the city in a van outfitted with a periscope, a projector, and a message.

Once the Senate Republicans decided to countenance demagoguery, one step led to another.

Ten key moments in Kavanaugh’s rocky confirmation process.

With the midterm elections just a month away, it is easy enough to see what many liberals will do now.

How did these two lawmakers, who have at times been treated as a pair on high-stakes votes, reach contrary ends?

Kavanaugh’s performance last Thursday, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, combined the postwar attitude that men should be in touch with their feelings with the intrinsic American ideal of white male privilege.

On Capitol Hill this week, it was as if “thoroughness” were just another issue that liberals and conservatives view differently, and not something that can be verifiably assessed.

Several people who knew the Supreme Court nominee in high school or college tried to share their stories with the F.B.I., but not all of them were successful.

Christine Blasey Ford spoke with disarming directness and vulnerability, but the hearing unleashed in Brett Kavanaugh a bitter, partisan rage pumped up with conspiracy theory.

Several people who hoped to contribute information to the Bureau’s investigation said that they struggled to make contact with agents.

It had seemed, at the start of the morning, that the protesters were there to express their endurance. But by midmorning the day had veered in another direction.

Kavanaugh’s nomination has presented the conservative movement with a golden opportunity to take a stand against the new culture of accountability for sexual abuse.

A memoir from 1997 that may or may not feature the controversial Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has become hard to find.

In being so undignified, Kavanaugh—and Trump—are saying that power is raw, never shared, and never contingent.

Jeannie Suk Gersen joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how flaws in the Senate’s Supreme Court nomination process are threatening the stability and legitimacy of legislative and judicial processes.