Sexual Assault

Sweeping military reforms include new guidelines for how the Department of Defense must handle child-on-child sexual assault on military bases.

• By Jack Herrera

An uptick in federal investigations into the mishandling of sexual assault on college campuses has done little to affect applications or donations to universities.

• By Jared Keller

Without a strong government response to the rampant presence of violence against women, the task of seeking justice is often left to grassroots organizers.

• By Mark Oprea

Californians remove a controversial judge from the bench, Trump might be down with legalizing marijuana, and fourth-graders can keep going to national parks for free.

• By Rebecca Worby

A legal principle intended to protect service members after World War II has spawned a dangerous precedent.

• By Jared Keller

A small town in northern Minnesota is paving the way for police departments in their efforts to process and mitigate huge backlogs of untested rape kits.

• By Ashley Hackett

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There were 50 cases of sexual assault reported in the 2016–17 school, according to a new report.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

In South Sudan's civil war, rape is wielded as a weapon. Despite dangerous stigma, some South Sudanese women are speaking out.

• By Cassandra Vinograd

Betsy DeVos rescinded Obama-era guidelines that pushed colleges and universities to use the lowest legal standard of proof in judging cases of sexual assault or violence.

• By Elena Gooray

In between the rows of men were writers who had been underestimated, rejected, and pushed out—even if their names were and remain unknown.

• By Melissa Gira Grant

Hospitality and domestic workers suffer staggering rates of sexual harassment and assault. But they are among women still largely omitted from the #MeToo movement—and many federal protections.

• By Tanvi Misra

How the powerful appropriate the rhetoric of historically marginalized peoples.

• By David M. Perry

As public awareness of harassment grows exponentially in the wake of #MeToo, the advocates staffing sexual assault hotlines are taking more calls—and teaching more callers—than ever before.

• By Hanna Brooks Olsen

Research finds being subjected to workplace misconduct can inhibit women's careers.

• By Tom Jacobs

The senator apologized Thursday afternoon and called for an ethics investigation into his actions.

• By Kate Wheeling

The director and accused sexual assaulter was ushered through walls of demonstrators on his way to a retrospective on Monday.

• By Katie Kilkenny

The 41st president attempted to frame a groping allegation as a lighthearted misunderstanding exacerbated by the stodgy humor of an aging man.

• By Morgan Baskin

After a report last Thursday about eight previously undisclosed lawsuits by women against Weinstein, 13 women alleged sexual harassment or assault by Weinstein in a piece in The New Yorker.

• By Katie Kilkenny

This time, a former German actress has stepped forward.

• By Katie Kilkenny

Allegations against Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles emerged on Saturday.

• By Katie Kilkenny

Though California's statute of limitations on sexual assault accusations has passed, the plaintiff was still able to file her complaint in court because she was a minor at the time of the alleged incident.

• By Katie Kilkenny

At least 20 other universities and institutions have withdrawn honorary degrees and other accolades in the wake of the sexual-assault allegations.

• By Katie Kilkenny