Outside the Beltway

A quick follow-up to a previous post.

A Hollywood star is gone at 82.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

A pioneering Black actor is gone at 94.

“The Closer” delivers more of what people love and hate about the GOAT.

The serial sex offender will be released from prison.

The man still can’t get out of his own way.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

America’s leading motivational speaker and self-help guru is coming under fire.

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

Before he started his campaign for President, former Vice-President Biden reached out to Anita Hill to apologize for his conduct during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas in 1991.

Justice Clarence Thomas argues that a 55-year-old precedent should be overturned.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Can society forgive the men caught up in the #MeToo movement? Is it even our place to decide?

Bernie Sanders is facing questions about sexual harassment from women who worked on his 2016 campaign as he prepares a likely run for President in 2020.

As expected, Bill Cosby’s lawyers have filed an appeal of his conviction earlier this year on sexual assault charges.

A fifty-year-old song is getting new scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

After forty years, a sexual predator finally gets at least some of what he deserves.

A look at the numbers behind the influx of women into electoral politics this year.

The #MeToo movement brings down the head of a Fortune 500 company.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

The masturbator-harasser is doing stand-up again.

One of the biggest names in Hollywood stands accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women in yet another ground-breaking report by Ronan Farrow.

One of the biggest pre-trial issues in the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein will be the issue of how many women other than his accuser will be able to testify against him.

In what seems like an obvious response to the rise of the #MeToo movement and the cultural changes it has brought about, the Miss America pageant is making a major change.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape and sexual assault in a New York Court.

Does learning that entertainers are bad people retroactively ruin their art?

The tragedy of Bill Cosby lies not in the downfall of a man once known as “America’s Dad,” but in the fact that a man who was, in fact, a sexual predator was allowed to evade justice for far too long.

Marking the end of a long fall from grace, the man once known as “America’s Dad” has been found guilty on three counts of sexual assault.

Controversies involving Jimmy Kimmel and “The Simpsons” highlight a perennial question.

Bill Cosby heads back to court for a retrial on the sexual assault allegations against him but it’s not going to be the same as the first.

The faculty would like to strip away a 20-year-old honor in light of several statements in violation of the institution’s core values.

President Trump spoke up about the spousal abuse charges against his former Staff Secretary Rob Porter. His response was entirely predictable.

A fitting honor for women who have brought to light an issue that was swept under the rug for far too long.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

While many on the right are condemning Roy Moore, there are far too many prevaricators and defenders out there.

Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore is accused of having molested a 14-year-old girl when he was in his 30s.

A hung jury in the Cosby sexual assault case results in a mistrial.

A long way off, but there are some important pre-trial matters to resolve between now and then.

The Greatest Of All Time.

A Pennsylvania Judge ruled today that there was sufficient evidence against Bill Cosby to allow the sexual assault charges against him to proceed to trial.

A Pennsylvania Judge has refused to dismiss sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby based on an alleged 2005 Immunity Agreement.

An agreement purportedly made ten years ago by a former prosecutor could mean the end of the criminal charges against Bill Cosby.

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