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The Women of Brooklyn’s Well-Read Black Girl Book Club We spoke to 27 women at the club’s festival about the black literature that left a lasting impact on them. 

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fixations
I Think About This a Lot: St. Vincent Saying ‘I Love You’ This video forces me to acknowledge that I have something in common with the kind of dudes who leave comments on clips of cute girls being cute.
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power
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Everyone Believed Larry Nassar Everyone believed the predatory trainer who may have just brought down USA Gymnastics. 

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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Became a Political Superstar This week’s episode of The Cut on Tuesdays podcast.
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Frivolity in the Capital: Couture Dresses Come to D.C. You can see Rodarte’s Star Wars dresses and Black Swan tutus up close.
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27 Women of Color on Seeing Themselves in Literature We spoke to 27 women at the club’s festival about the black literature that left a lasting impact on them.
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When Anna Wintour Opens Her Rolodex At 15, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund can give young designers a boost – if they’re lucky. 
fashion
Why Marc Jacobs Brought His 1992 Grunge Collection Back The Perry Ellis collection became a touchstone of the ’90s and beyond. Now, his eponymous label is reproducing 26 of the original runway outfits.
By Cathy Horyn
victoria's secret
How Victoria’s Secret Hair Has Changed Over the Years From shiny waves to even shinier waves.
By Erica Smith

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The Best-est Party Looks of the Week One awe-inspiring look from every fête that mattered.
By Jessica Boddy
never forget
Remembering the Best Victoria’s Secret Disaster of All Time The time Ariana Grande got smacked in the face by angel wings.
By Erica Smith
that's a good look
Get Ready for the Return of Corduroy It’s cool now, promise.
By Diana Tsui and Sarah Spellings

Power

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Barbara Lee Talks Iraq, Poverty, and Her Seat at the Table “When I’m in the room and nobody else that looks like me is in the room, it makes a big difference,” says the House’s lefty conscience.
By Rebecca Traister
piece of work
Inbox Zero Is Actually Very Easy For the love of God, delete your emails.
By Katie Heaney
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By Anna Silman
We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn’t The making of a white-nationalist poster girl. 
ask a boss
10 Impressive Questions to Ask in a Job Interview
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reading the signs
How Donald Trump Uses the Female Body As a Weapon The White House co-opts the language of #MeToo to punish a CNN reporter.
By Rhonda Garelick
my two cents
‘After My Parents Died, I Got Money to Buy an Apartment’
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Comedy writer Megan Amram of The Good Place on drinking too much coffee, becoming a L.A. caricature, and how Twitter changed her career

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Planned Parenthood’s New President Sued Trump (and Won) Dr. Leana Wen is the first physician to be president of Planned Parenthood in nearly 50 years. 
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it's complicated
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politics
I Voted for Republicans, Until They Voted Against My Son
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scent memories
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work
How I Get It Done: Robin Roberts The Good Morning America host on practicing optimism, being a better boss, and what she would tell her younger self.
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Remembering the Best Victoria’s Secret Disaster of All Time The time Ariana Grande got smacked in the face by angel wings.
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Canada Too Polite to Brag About Its Own Hot Duck Could it be a global conspiracy? 
fixations
I Think About This a Lot: St. Vincent Saying ‘I Love You’
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2018 midterms
Of the Over 400 Black Women Running in Midterms, 5 to Know No matter how much you like Michelle Obama and Oprah, we’ve never elected a statewide top executive who looks like them. This year might change that.
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you know what i heard
Is Khloé Kardashian Going to Break Up With Tristan Thompson?
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