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Hello, and welcome to the waves for Thursday, October 11th, the Star Report Edition.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast Outward. And joining me for

today's episode from all the way out in Berkeley is Slate staff writer Lily Loof Barrow. Hi, Lily.

Hi. Thanks for having me. Oh yeah. We're so happy to have you. Lily is here by popular demand. A lot of our listeners

have been writing and saying they love your work. So we're so happy to have you on. And calling in

from Oklahoma City is someone else that we've been wanting to get on the waves for quite some time.

Georgetown history professor, Marsha Chatlin. Welcome to the show, Marcia. Thank you. I'm super

excited. Awesome. We have a couple of really

juicy topics to get into this week. We're going to start with a little bit of a return to Brett Kavanaugh,

avid beer drinker, alleged sexual assailant, and our newest Supreme Court justice on the anniversary of the Me Too movement. What does

his confirmation say about the movement? What does it mean for the movement's future? We'll talk about

that. Then we'll review a star is born, a new film starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper as a rising

pop star and a declining rock star who fall in love.

And finally, we'll talk about a new California law requiring corporations to place women on

their boards of directors. Then for our Slate Plus segment, we're going to decide whether it's

sexist that Wikipedia did not have an entry for Nobel Prize winning physicist Donna Strickland.

If you're not a Slate Plus member yet, and you should be, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus.

All right, let's get into it.

Last Friday was the one-year anniversary of the start of the contemporary Me Too movement as marked by the publication of the New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein. And it was a sort of poetic and dramatic and tragic conclusion to that first year, what with Senator Susan Collins announcing her yes vote on Brett Kavanaugh on Friday, essentially clinching his confirmation to the Supreme Court after weeks of protests and discussions of sexual assault in his alleged misconduct.

And in some ways, to me, the Kavanaugh moment kind of felt like an

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