A Federal Judge Has Gone to Great Lengths to Make Clear Trump Really Did Rape E. Jean Carroll
Elizabeth Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors…
Biden Condemns “Horrific Accounts” of Rape of Israeli Girls and Women
“The world can’t just look away,” President Joe Biden said of the allegations of sexual violence by Hamas on Oct. 7.Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Biden condemned accounts of rape and sexual violence reportedly perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli…
New York’s Adult Survivors Act Has Expired
Edna Leshowitz/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After one year, with more than 2,500 lawsuits filed, New York’s Adult Survivors Act expired Friday. The act lifted the statute of limitations for civil claims by adult sexual assault survivors, providing New Yorkers a one-year “lookback window”…
How Dating Apps Became a Paradise for Predators
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matthew Herrick’s dating profiles depicted a muscular man with olive-green eyes and red-hot bedroom interests. The aspiring actor liked orgies and bondage. He was HIV-positive but preferred unprotected sex. He had a “rape fantasy,” and if he seemed resistant…
Trump’s New Defamation Suit Against E. Jean Carroll Is a Silencing Tactic
Mother Jones; Brian Cahn/Zuma; Stephanie Keith/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s yearslong court battle to hold the man who sexually abused her legally accountable has been extraordinary in many ways. First, because that abuser is former President Donald Trump, who…
The Weight of Water: Women Mariners Abused at Sea Are Finally Breaking Their Silence
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article was produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, with support from the H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism. Any woman who works in the maritime industry will remember where she was when she read about…