Representative Keith Ellison’s former girlfriend Karen Monahan will not release the video she says shows Ellison physically abusing her, says a report from MPR News. Monahan’s son posted the accusations against Ellison online last weekend. Monahan later gave a lengthy statement addressing the details of the alleged…

Update, Monday, 12:11 am: Karen Monahan, Keith Ellison’s accuser, released a lengthy statement in which she discusses her relationship with Ellison. In it, she repeats her claims of physical abuse listed by her son, and provides more details about the manipulation she says she faced at Ellison’s hands. She also…

Last year, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was one of the few powerful Democrats to say that Senator Al Franken should resign amid allegations that he groped eight women. A report from HuffPost details the backlash that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is now facing after her decision to speak out.

After the latest Ronan Farrow investigation for The New Yorker outed CBS CEO Les Moonves as an alleged sexual abuser, the company has decided to not punish Moonves immediately, according to the New York Times.

The Washington Post reported on Monday afternoon that Corey Coleman, the former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) who resigned last month, is under investigation for allegedly allowing a culture of widespread sexual harassment to flourish at the agency.

Former Ohio State wrestlers are accusing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a right-wing former leader of the Freedom Caucus who was rumored to be considering a run for House Republican leader when Paul Ryan retires from Congress, reportedly ignored sexual abuse by the team doctor when he was a coach. And Jordan is denying it.

When Bill Clinton reflexively pointed out to the Today Show that he left the White House $16 million in debt, implying that he suffered appropriately for his treatment of Monica Lewinsky, he was criticized by progressives as profoundly Not Getting It. But 20 years after the end of Clinton’s presidency—amid a wave of…

If you were to hastily design an algorithm to mimic what a politically powerful 71-year-old man credibly accused of serial sexual assault might have to say about rape culture and the resignation of former Senator Al Franken, it would probably sound a lot like what Bill Clinton has come up with lately.

On Friday, Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden announced that he is hiring Ryan Lizza as the magazine’s chief political correspondent “at a time when Washington is the main event.” Curiously, at a time when the #MeToo era has also become a main event, Fielden failed to mention the fact that Lizza was available for…

In the middle of the night on November 11, 2011, Jenn Shapland, a 24-year-old graduate student in the English department at the University of Texas at Austin, received an email from her professor.

Aaron Persky, known piece of shit, entered the halls of history on Tuesday as the first judge to be recalled from his position in California since 1932.

Earlier this week, former president Bill Clinton demonstrated a predictable inability to take responsibility and show true remorse over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and further showed a complete misunderstanding of what the #MeToo movement means. In an interview with NBC’s Craig Melvin, Clinton got extremely defensive…

Bill Clinton, an accused predator, is one of the last people you’d ever expect to have meaningful thoughts about the #MeToo era. But in an interview with NBC’s Craig Melvin that aired Monday morning, Clinton proved to exceed even the lowest of possible expectations.

On Thursday morning, CNN published a story in which eight women accused Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, both on and off set. The critically acclaimed actor and producer is described by women and witnesses as touching women inappropriately and making lewd comments. Employees at…

In December, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand took what was perhaps the boldest move in the generally cautious politician’s decade-long career: She published a Facebook post calling for Al Franken, who had been accused of groping and forcibly kissing multiple women, to step down. Within hours, dozens of senators…

The New Yorker reported on Monday night that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who filed a civil rights lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Company after Weinstein’s pattern of alleged abuse became public, has allegedly been abusive to multiple women himself.

When powerful men are accused of sexual harassment, the structures that long enabled such behavior don’t just crumble away. In fact, those unholy layers of protection often quickly coalesce to shield the man. The latest example of this came on Monday night, when Page Six reported that a number of low-level female…

Longtime NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has been accused of repeated sexual harassment by Linda Vester, a former journalist and anchor for NBC and Fox News.

As familiar as I am with the pastime of giving white men maximum credit for minimum effort, even I was taken aback by this recent Vanity Fair headline: “Matt Lauer Is Planning His Comeback.” 

It has been nearly six months since the women who stepped forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein helped start a national conversation on sexual harassment. Yet while we’re only just now being forced to reckon with our most famous predators, the women working in our country’s most vulnerable industries—domestic workers,…