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America Is Finally Listening to Women. It’s Sparking a National Crisis.

Women are now powerful enough to disrupt the male-dominated consensus that in previous eras silenced them. But they are not yet powerful enough to get justice.
Source: Mike Blake / Reuters

“The only consensus,” about Thursday’s Judiciary Committee hearings, “was that the Senate — and the nation — had hit a new low.” In the , Jonathan Last that, “It’s impossible to look at the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings and not see America as a nation in decline.” A lot of respectable people believe that. It’s the kind of sentiment you hear from nonpartisan journalists

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