We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)

Ms. Ramirez’s legal team gave the F.B.I. a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau — in its supplemental background investigation — interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the F.B.I. on their own.

Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.”

Just like the Matrix — Jimmy

I remember Christopher Hitchens always railing on identity politics. I had to include this biting quote of his from Letters to a Young Contrarian. — NOS4A2

No one is able to see themselves as a political actor. — StreetlightX

You assume people care. You do, other Democrats do. The average Republican clearly doesn't because anything is better than a Democrat. They'd have voted in a rabbid homosexual dingo as long as he's not a Democrat. If they did care, he'd never gotten elected in the first place.

You're also assuming there will be fair and balanced reporting by Fox and Bteibart. So I guess you'll feel really good about it all with your buddies that already think as you do but it's not an election strategy. Especially since running a platform on "I'm not as bad as Trump" isn't exactly inspiring.

If the Democrats are incapable of crossing the divide and finding neutral ground and understanding with the typical Trump voter, it will just be more of the tribal "I'll never vote for a Democrat/Republican" that we've seen for decades now. — Benkei

Especially since running a platform on "I'm not as bad as Trump" isn't exactly inspiring. — Benkei

what? You want him reelected? If he survives impeachment procedures it means in the eye of the public that he didn't do it. — Benkei

Tidus Andronicus, after all, is from New Jersey. — thewonder

me and my parents agree that the rest of the countries are garbage, which is why everyone wants to come over here — Shushi

No need to over complicate things, and the Founding Fathers were right about making liberty vs government distinction, which was unique compared to all other countries in history (where true liberty and freedom is virtually non-existent). — Shushi

the self correcting mechanisms in the free market will allow consumers to make businesses conduct their business in such a more effective way — Shushi

Expendable capital is key which allows resources to be used to generate products and services that create demand. — Shushi

I explained why most fortune 500 companies donate to the hard left — Shushi

I was just thinking of mentioning how incredibly anemic this kind of libertarian political ontology is — StreetlightX

it often creates monopolies — Shushi

The argument is that the states exist as a fundamental political unit of organization making up the US — Marchesk

Why are these people convinced that they're living under capitalism to begin with? Why not any other "ism" that one might throw around? Such views don't pop into existence out of thin air. You don't have to read the works of academics to be influenced by views that originate in the works of academics, so much should be fairly obvious. — Constrained Maximizer

You mean the completely unverifiable claim about Sanders' network of donors? You will excuse me if I don't find "Bernie said so" terribly convincing. — Constrained Maximizer

Are we playing let's ignore history because we don't like the current party in power? — Marchesk

This is of course not what I said. The fact that I said "misled by arguments" and not "progenitors of such arguments" makes it clear that I am not talking solely about ivory tower academics. — Constrained Maximizer

The inability to even grasp that we're talking about rival views calls into question the validity of an answer given by someone who harbors said inability. — Constrained Maximizer

That respondents don't view capitalism and socialism in "either-or terms", despite the fact that these are clearly incompatible economic models, might tell you something about the validity of such results. — Constrained Maximizer