F.B.I. agents were ordered to examine allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Credit Lexey Swall for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The renewed F.B.I. background check of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh over allegations of sexual assault…

Senator Jeff Flake returning to a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday after meeting with other senators before voting on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Surrounded by his colleagues in a cramped corridor…

Brett M. Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for President Trump, speaks on Thursday. (Bloomberg) (Saul Loeb/Bloomberg) As he began his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh on Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (R-Conn.) asked Kavanaugh about a point of…

Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Sept. 27. (Jim Bourg/Pool/AP) During her testimony Thursday morning, Christine Blasey Ford offered one point of information that she felt could narrow down the time frame of the alleged incident in which she…

Critic’s Notebook Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was an angry counterpoint to his more reticent accuser, Christine Blasey, in one of the most anticipated televised Senate hearings since Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas in 1991. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times It came down to she said, he screamed.…

Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address Dr. Blasey’s sexual assault allegation against the Supreme Court nominee. Sept. 27, 2018 Credit Image by Erin Schaff for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Two weeks of chaos clouding Judge Brett…

Which is to say that the number of jowls at today’s Senate hearing about Brett Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court is blinding. I’m not the only one to make this observation. What the hearing makes clear is that most of the senators leading this investigation,…

What the creators of museum “experiences” have realized is that a lot of people want to take pictures of themselves in a museum, without going to a traditional museum. Photograph by Mike Coppola / Candytopia / Getty Candytopia, the pop-up exhibit with locations in Manhattan and San Francisco, shares…

If you’re like me, you dread conversations about your salary, and you probably don’t know anyone who feels perfectly at ease with the topic, regardless of gender, age, or level of experience. But to young professionals not yet familiar with a market and where they fit in, asking for a raise or…

Critic's Notebook I went to as many Instagramable “museums,” “factories” and “mansions” as I could. They nearly broke me. A “champagne bubble” ball pit at the Rosé Mansion. Sept. 25, 2018 Credit Image by Amy Lombard for The New York Times One evening this summer, I left work around 6, ducked into a…

The story of Telltale Games paints a fascinating, depressing picture of a company that found success and seemed to immediately encase itself in amber. The road to its devastating shutdown is what it looks like when a company finds a winning formula, and thinks that winning formula will win forever.…

Mike Segar / AP A key Republican senator has quietly weighed in on an upcoming Supreme Court case that could have important consequences for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Utah lawmaker Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, filed a 44-page amicus brief…

Pigs All the Way Down Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class. Opinion Columnist A protest Monday outside the Supreme Court against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Credit Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Over the weekend, the controversy over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination evolved in a way…

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and several classmates at Georgetown Preparatory School referred to themselves as “Renate Alumni” in the 1983 yearbook. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times Brett Kavanaugh’s page in his high school yearbook offers a…

Supreme Court nominee is sworn in Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo: USA TODAY) The attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford have sworn and signed declarations from four people who corroborate her claims of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In documents sent to…

Julie Swetnick signed a sworn affidavit saying Kavanaugh would spike drinks at high school parties to "cause girls to lose inhibitions and their ability to say 'no.'" Kavanaugh called the allegations "ridiculous." Handout; Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A third woman has come forward to accuse…

As the rolling saga of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination progresses ― with more allegations emerging and staunch defenders of the nominee making proclamations on the Senate floor and cable news ― I, like many sexual assault survivors, have begun living in a kind of bifurcated time. I am in the present,…

Serge Faguet hopes to ‘live for millions of years and explore other planets’.Photograph: Winni Wintermeyer for the Guardian I n September last year, the young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Serge Faguet posted an article on the tech website Hacker Noon. It was headlined: “I’m 32 and spent $200k on…

It’s one of the most frustrating cycles of the movie business: a visionary filmmaker bursts onto the scene with a singular approach, only to get snatched up by the studio machinery and homogenized by its gears. Look no further than the struggles of the “Star Wars” movies, where directors ranging…

Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s, has described a dormitory party gone awry and a drunken incident that she wants the F.B.I. to investigate. Photograph by Benjamin Rasmussen for The New Yorker As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President…

Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Race There’s one distinct difference between the Clarence Thomas hearings and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Opinion Columnist Clarence Thomas in 1991, left; Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Credit left: J. David Ake/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse —…

The spotlight is getting much hotter. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Brett Kavanaugh’s primary and most plausible defense against the charge that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford was that Brett Kavanaugh would never do such a thing. His life showed he was straightlaced and studious,…

Poor Republicans. They’ve tried so hard to be subtle, to seem respectful of Christine Blasey Ford, even as they’ve maneuvered to undermine her. They would hear her accusations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school, they wanted us to know, if only she’d testify…

Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh on Sept. 6, during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) Either out of desperation, or out of the mistaken belief that the Supreme Court nominee had to convince conservative viewers of his innocence (it’s the Senate GOP moderates…

From left, David Jolicoeur, Kelvin Mercer and Vincent Mason of the pioneering hip-hop group De La Soul. Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times On Valentine’s Day in 2014, De La Soul did something surprising: The group gave away almost all of its work. After gathering fans’ email addresses in an…

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act on Feb. 25, 2017, in Washington. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) If you’d asked me a few years ago to name the Republican Party’s top policy priorities, I would have said: 1) Obamacare repeal and 2) tax cuts. Today, the GOP seems to believe that both are duds…

The Party of No Ideas Republicans aren’t even trying to run on their policies. Opinion Columnist Credit Tom Brenner for The New York Times Democrats will almost certainly receive more votes than Republicans in the midterm elections. But gerrymandering and other factors have severely tilted the…

05.02.18 Brother Ali - Shadows On the Sun: 15th Anniversary Reflections Written by: Andres Tardio While reading, listen to Shadows on the Sun on the platform of your choice. The sun has never been kind to Brother Ali. Its brilliance obscures his vision, and its rays burn his skinwithout mercy.…

James was all over my dog, Cindy, photographing her and posting her to his Facebook. He would roughhouse and then curl around her, pinning Cindy down and forcing her to look him in the eyes: a deep, locked gaze that said they were connected, that said he belonged in this apartment with this dog. He…

My email junk folder is like a glimpse into a fantastical world where Ray-Bans are free and Michael Kors is always having a sale. Typically I don’t open any before clicking “delete all,” but that day one caught my eye: “Congratulations Nell Stevens! You have won a luxury honeymoon to India!” I felt…

This quiet working-class town, just beyond the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip, helped spark the global financial crisis 10 years ago. The fallout was inescapable: Nearly one in three homes went into foreclosure. Today, the community of North Las Vegas, encompassing the 89031 ZIP code, is the model of…

Ten years ago, on Saturday, September 13th, 2008, the world was about to end. The New York Federal Reserve was a zoo. Imagine NASA headquarters on the day a giant asteroid careens into the atmosphere. That was the New York Fed: all hands on deck, peak human panic . The crowd included future Treasury…

Social-media platforms know what you’re seeing, and they know how you acted in the immediate aftermath of seeing it, and they can decide what you will see next. Illustration by Jack Sachs Twitter, as everyone knows, is Hell. Its most hellish aspect is a twofold, self-reinforcing contradiction: you…

Illustration by Alicia Tatone Think getting lucky is all about, well, luck? Think again. Those who appear to “run lucky” just might be engineering fortune in their favor. Some guys seem to have all the luck. A perfect career, a perfect partner, a perfect life. When they’re not sitting next to a book…

Morgan Neville’s new documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” follows the life and work of Fred Rogers, who took the radical position that children’s feelings were as important as those of adults. Photograph from Everett A few months ago, upon returning home from work, I hung my jacket in the…

Fifteen years ago, they booed Michael Moore on his best day. It was March 23, 2003, in the Kodak Theatre at the 75th Academy Awards, and Moore was up for Best Documentary Feature for his fourth film, the anti-gun saga Bowling for Columbine . The movie, a surprise hit at the box office, was the…

This morning, Donald Trump tweeted , “if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents.” The truth, though, is that it would have been incredibly unusual for Christine Blasey Ford…