Sexual Abuse

A New York jury ordered the ex-President to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million. Will the verdict bust the myth that he’s immune to consequences?

Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel doesn’t entirely do justice to its powerful source material.

Todd Field’s film about the downfall of a world-famous conductor shows the toll that untouchability takes even on the person it supposedly benefits.

The author discusses “A Duet,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.

For years, nonconsensual videos flourished on the Internet. How have adult sites been reined in?

In “Georgia,” the Korean American filmmaker Jayil Pak draws on the notorious 2004 Miryang gang-rape case to relate a story of parents struggling to hold their daughter’s abusers to account.

Many victims of domestic violence who watched the trial will likely conclude that, if they share their experiences, they will be disbelieved, shamed, and ostracized.

A landmark report has detailed systemic abuse within the S.B.C., abetted by church leaders. Kate Shellnutt, a senior news editor of Christianity Today, discusses the fallout.

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have crushed civil society and thrown their former comrades in jail. What remains of the Sandinista ideal?

The Church hierarchy has been signalling a new openness to change, but a plea from the Pope emeritus, following the release of a report on abuse, follows an old path.

In “Very Cold People,” the writer uses her unique, omissive style to capture a repressed New England town.

The former editor Graydon Carter and a journalist, Vicky Ward, give conflicting accounts of why the magazine didn’t publish sexual-abuse allegations in 2003.

The British socialite, who has been convicted of conspiring with her late partner, Jeffrey Epstein, to groom minors for sexual abuse, continues to act like she has nothing to be ashamed of.

The former socialite and associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s has been compared by one of her attorneys to the Biblical Eve, a woman asked to pay for the sins of the man, as if a woman can’t also make a perfectly legitimate criminal.

A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now a hundred years old, teach us today?

The first time that the late singer’s name was spoken in a courtroom as a victim of sexual abuse was two weeks ago, twenty years after her death.

Witnesses called to testify against the R. & B. superstar, who has been charged with the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors, included Kris McGrath, who did nothing to report or stop Kelly’s alleged crimes.

An interview with Katie Strang, a sports journalist whose stories mostly take place off the court.

With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.