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Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate under fire for alleged sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, apparently believes America was a better place when slavery was still legal. At a campaign event earlier this year, an audience member asked Moore for his opinion on when the last time America was

WASHINGTON — Democrats are moving swiftly and forcefully to remove congressional colleagues accused of sexual misconduct. Republicans are doing little but talking. Democrats on Thursday saw a second party lawmaker fall as Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said he would resign after being accused by several women of sexual harassment — and urged to quit by

Last month, I stood in front of my open dresser, contemplating my underwear drawer. I was packing for a weeklong trip out of the country, where I would be traveling almost exclusively by myself, and I made sure that every pair of undies that came with me was comfortable, unadorned and, most important, completely unflattering.

We are in a moment of reckoning. For too long, in too many workplaces, women and men have been propositioned, grabbed, licked, kissed and groped. They have seen their careers crumble into dust through no fault of their own. They have been driven out of the industries—journalism, entertainment and, yes, politics—in which they worked for

rosie o’donnell donald trump jr. Al Franken’s Thursday resignation found critics in some Democrats who weren’t eager to surrender one of their more personable elected officials and, unsurprisingly, Rosie O’Donnell was one of the voices crying foul. Meanwhile, some on the right wore grins as they watched Franken’s speech on the floor of the senate

U.S Senator Al Franken announced his resignation on Thursday amid a growing firestorm stemming from sexual misconduct allegations – the second Democratic lawmaker to announce a departure this week under a cloud of moral impropriety. More than two-dozen fellow Democratic senators had called on Franken to resign after a news media report quoted a former