Time to reckon.

The Senate, still “plowing ahead,” is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh today. 1/21

Among those who oppose Kavanaugh, you can count retired Justice John Paul Stevens, same for a trio of Kavanaugh’s drinking buddies at Yale. 2/21

Supporters of Kavanaugh include pretty much the entire Republican voter base. 3/21

Kavanaugh tells the Wall Street Journal he might have been too emotional in his Senate testimony. 4/21

Utah senator Orrin Hatch tells a group of women protesting Kavanaugh’s nomination to “grow up.” 5/21

A look at how a highly influential sexual harasser—Judge Alex Kozinski, Kavanaugh’s mentor—robbed an entire generation of female lawyers. 6/21

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their fight to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. 7/21

A conversation with author Rebecca Traister about the power and consequences of female rage. 8/21

There’s a new form of contraception on the market: an app that informs women which days they’re infertile. 9/21

Silicon Valley venture capitalists invested $75.3 billion in 2016. A newcomer plans to spend $50 billion this year alone. 10/21

Economists say the Fed is painting a picture of the economy that's too good to be true. 11/21

The average family health insurance premium has increased 55% since 2008, twice as fast as workers' wages. 12/21

Sponsored: Make a statement (about donuts?) with some classic TMN merch. 13/21

Remember that anonymous “resistance” member inside the Trump White House? They’re still anonymous, and the investigation into their identity has stalled. 14/21

Seventy percent of African nations have never been visited by a sitting American president. 15/21

Brexit’s true believers insist they’re the mainstream in Britain, that it’s time to “make conservatives conservative again.” 16/21

Photographer Maisie Marshall documents British rodeo culture. 17/21

Engineers have developed a new form of wood that's as “strong as steel, but six times lighter.” 18/21

Physiognomy is a debunked 19th-century pseudoscience, and yet we use it more than ever. 19/21

A short film about “countermapping,” in which a traditional Zuni farmer is working with artists to make maps “that challenge the arbitrary borders imposed on the Zuni world.” 20/21

Photographs demonstrate how zoo employees weigh different baby animals. 21/21


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