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The Model Who Didn’t Believe She Was Being Scouted Meet Lovisa Lager.

By Sarah Spellings and Diana Tsui

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How to Get Full Hair and Mega Brows And three more easy New York Fashion Week beauty lessons.
By Kathleen Hou and Erica Smith
#metoo
Ian Buruma Out at The New York Review of Books After publishing a lengthy essay with Jian Ghomeshi, who’s been accused of sexually assaulting upward of 20 women.
By Gabriella Paiella
ask polly
By Heather Havrilesky
‘My Parents Don’t Love Me!’ You don’t deserve to get hurt, over and over again. 

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Why Is Goat-Cheese Packaging So Annoying? An investigation into those hard-to-open, impossible-to-reseal tubes.
By Kelly Conaboy
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The No-Makeup Makeup of Nail Polishes Make your hands look fancier with a soft pink color.
By Kathleen Hou
first person
Our Sister Becky What if the doctors had listened to her?
By Kate Beaton

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Style

they seem cool
The Model Who Didn’t Believe She Was Being Scouted Meet Lovisa Lager.
By Sarah Spellings and Diana Tsui
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4 Women Try Glossier’s New Zit Stick A pen for your face.
By Kathleen Hou
nyfw spring 2019
By Cathy Horyn
Shock! Sex! Protest! Jeremy Scott Catches the Moment A strong collection reminds us that the designer has had a great, coherent career. 
scene stealers
See the Best Street Style From London Fashion Week You can never have too many patterns.
By Paul Jeong
lfw spring 2019
Burberry Gets Professional Riccardo Tisci’s first show for the British mega-brand was sober and adult.
By Cathy Horyn

The Shopper

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2018 emmys
The Best Beauty Looks at the 2018 Emmys From slicked-back buns to shimmery eyes.
By Erica Smith
red carpet derby
The Best, Worst, and Poufiest Looks at the Emmys Red Carpet From the Queer Eye cast to Tracee Ellis Ross.
By Sarah Spellings
that's a good look
This Elegant Shirt Dress Is From J.Crew’s Inclusive Collab It’s truly easy to wear.
By Sarah Spellings

Power

#metoo
Ian Buruma Out at The New York Review of Books After publishing a lengthy essay with Jian Ghomeshi, who’s been accused of sexually assaulting upward of 20 women.
By Gabriella Paiella
the kavanaugh hearings
Another Judge, Another Woman, Another Slap in the Face History repeats itself, but it’s usually a little less blatant than this.
By Sejal Singh
sex work
By Callie Beusman
Julia Salazar’s Win Is a Huge Victory for Sex Workers Her success shows that candidates can vocally support sex workers’ rights and get elected. 
ask a boss
How to Ask for More Vacation Time
By Alison Green
state politics
Alessandra Biaggi Ousted One of New York’s Worst Democrats “I was so angry that so much progress had been blocked in a state like New York … [that] was the catalyst that got me off the sidelines.”
By Gabriella Paiella
my two cents
I Defaulted on My Student Loans. Now What?
By Charlotte Cowles
how i get it done
When Samantha Bee launched Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on TBS in February 2016, she became the first female comedian to host a late-night satirical news show — and transformed late-night TV. The 48-year-old Canadian lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, comedian Jason Jones, and three kids. Here’s how she gets it done.

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Self

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Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of September 17 Libra season is upon us — and Mercury enters Libra this week, too!
By Claire Comstock-Gay
first person
Our Sister Becky What if the doctors had listened to her?
By Kate Beaton
good question
By Kelly Conaboy
Why Is Goat-Cheese Packaging So Annoying? An investigation into those hard-to-open, impossible-to-reseal tubes. 
science of us
My Life As a Psychopath
By Katie Heaney
it's complicated
I Accidentally Emailed an Old Love-Letter Draft to My Ex While going through my unsent messages with my new boyfriend.
By Christina McCausland
how i got this baby
The Mom Who Did IVF — For Her Husband’s Infertility
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scent memories
Natasha Gregson Wagner recently added a new fragrance, La Rose, to the line inspired by her late mother, Natalie Wood. Based on the roses her mom kept in their garden, the realistic scent smells freshly picked thanks to a mix of rose essence, geranium, and heliotrope. The Cut spoke with Wagner about the smell of dog paws, hamburgers, and oil on canvas.
sex diaries
The Freshly Single Man Refusing to Answer Texts From His Ex This week’s sex diary.
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my two cents
How Can I Recover From the Money Problems of My Early 20s? Your problems might be frustrating, but at least they’re fixable.
By Charlotte Cowles

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Culture

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Noah Centineo, Shameless Heartthrob My date with the best thirst architect the internet’s ever seen.
By Allison P. Davis
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A Guide to the Brad Pitt–Angelina Jolie Divorce Drama They’ve reportedly reached a “truce” after two years of drama.
By Lisa Ryan
beat the meatles indeed
By Kelly Conaboy
All of the Beatles Masturbation Puns We Can Think Of Here are all of the Beatles masturbation-related puns we can come up with at the moment. 
kontinuity errors
Kim Kardashian’s Baby-Name Journey Leads to Chicago
By Mariah Smith
dolls of instagram
Meet Serena Williams’s Daughter’s Doll, Instagram Influencer Qai Qai: Who is she?
By Kelly Conaboy
you know what i heard
Selena Gomez Refuses to Comment on Justin Bieber Engagement
By Allie Jones
they seem cool
The Model Who Didn’t Believe She Was Being Scouted Meet Lovisa Lager.
By Sarah Spellings and Diana Tsui
fixations
I Think About This a Lot: Vanessa Bayer’s Sunday Routine “I order food from my couch,” she admits, “and I don’t leave my couch again until it comes.”
By Katherine Gillespie
let's move to rabbit hash
Why Does This Town Have Dogs for Mayors? An investigation in honor of the late border collie Lucy Lou, its first female leader.
By Kelly Conaboy

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8/19/2018
Tessa Thompson Knows People Can’t Stop Thinking About Her She’d just rather you think about her work than her personal life.
By Allison P. Davis
8/6/2018
Sonoya Mizuno Doesn’t Just Want to Dance A conversation with the ballerina-turned–Crazy Rich Asians star about representation and following your gut.
By Kathleen Hou
7/3/2018
Marisa Tomei Knows What She’s Worth A frank conversation on money, beauty, and sticking with work you love.
By Stella Bugbee
6/29/2018
Summer of Rage White men are the minority in the United States — no wonder they get uncomfortable when their power is challenged.
By Rebecca Traister
6/7/2018
Meet Jorja Smith: The Soul Singer Who Turned Down Drake “Maybe I am a bit of a siren.”
By Allison P. Davis
6/4/2018
Time’s Up, Bill Is Bill Clinton the only one who doesn’t realize he needs to join the #MeToo reckoning?
By Rebecca Traister
5/28/2018
How an Aspiring ‘It’ Girl Tricked New York’s Party People — and Its Banks Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.
By Jessica Pressler
5/13/2018
What I Learned on My Date With a Sex Robot Maybe they need to be more like us. Or maybe we’re already learning to be more like them.
By Allison P. Davis
5/1/2018
In Her New Book Motherhood, Sheila Heti Confronts an Eternal Female Crossroads The writer takes up the problem of whether to have a baby in her engrossing autobiographical novel.
By Molly Fischer
4/5/2018
Busy Philipps on Instagram, Her BFF Michelle Williams, and Losing Heath Ledger Instagram’s favorite storyteller has so much more to say.
By Allie Jones
4/2/2018
The ‘Mirror Face’ of 17 New York Women Women, photographed through a two-way mirror, reveal what they desire in themselves.
By Molly Fischer
3/16/2018
Teens Already Know How to Overthrow the Government You would too if you’d grown up reading the Hunger Games.
By Lisa Miller