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fromSlate Magazine
20 hours agoHarvey Weinstein Is Being Tried a Third Time in Manhattan for Rape. It Never Should Have Gotten to This Point.
New York must change evidence rules to ensure accountability for serial rapists like Harvey Weinstein.
In 2017, The New York Times investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey co-authored a bombshell story on sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage spawned a book, 2019's She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Kantor's second, following 2012's The Obamas). More recently, Kantor investigated the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate the right to an abortion.
"I hate when actors put themselves in false categories... When you are supporting, you should be truly a supporting player, and when you're the lead, you have to step up and go into a harder category."