Christine Blasey Ford

I regularly deal with women who’ve been sexually abused in other countries. Many of them do not report the assaults to law enforcement, because in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the police are unlikely to take rape and harassment seriously. These are generally patriarchal societies, where women still are...

This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. The Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justices Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Clarence Thomas in 1991 echoed each other to many watching, as claims of sexual misconduct by both men were made public by a pair of previously unknown women thrust into history.

It's been 30 years since Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her when they worked together. Thomas denied the allegation. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ANITA HILL: My working relationship became even more strained when Judge Thomas began to use...