The Cut

encounter

Mackenzie Davis Is Overwhelmed Too

Talking 2020 with the co-star of Hulu’s new lesbian holiday rom-com, Happiest Season. By Esmé Weijun Wang

The Latest

11/25/2020

Denmark’s Slaughtered Mink Reportedly Rising From Graves
11/25/2020

Haggard Tree Undergoes Stunning Glow-Up
11/25/2020

The 24 Best Gifts for the Foodie in Your Life
11/25/2020

Well, at Least There’s No SantaCon This Year
11/25/2020

The 11 Best Books to Give As Gifts

More More More

ch-ch-changes By Kathleen Hou Jenna Lyons Is Back And she hopes you still like her.

Fear Vs. Fun

See All

the cut podcast The Border Patrol Agent I Know An immigration activist and reporter in conversation with an active-duty Border Patrol agent, on The Cut podcast. By the Cut
power Their Patients Have COVID-19 and Still Think It’s a Hoax Nurses treating coronavirus skeptics are being spit on and harassed. Many want to quit. By Angelina Chapin

Style

holiday gifts The 24 Best Gifts for the Foodie in Your Life Whether they’re into wine, coffee, or Sichaun spices. By the Cut
reading the signs Trump Has Lost the Will to Be Blond The president’s hair has always been a clue to his mental state. By Rhonda Garelick

gift guides By the Cut The 11 Best Books to Give As Gifts Titles to satisfy everyone on your list, from fantasy obsessives to die-hard New Yorkers.

fashion Gucci’s Miniseries Had Major Ambitions Is fashion fit for the content-creation business? By Cathy Horyn
finer things Your Boots Are Calling Remember boots? By Emilia Petrarca

The Shopper

The 11 Best Books to Give As Gifts By the Cut
The Candle Smells Dirty and I Like It By Kathleen Hou
How This Rihanna-Approved Facialist Gets His Skin So Good By Daise Bedolla
The Best Christmas Gifts to Buy This Year By the Cut

All Shopping

fear vs. fun Eight New Yorkers on Partying During COVID “I’m aware that what we are doing is pretty stupid because we’re putting mad people at risk. For some reason, we still kept doing it.” By James D. Walsh
fear vs. fun New York Nightlife Never Stopped. It Just Moved Underground. After hours in the contagious city. By Brock Colyar
an investigation So, When Is Drake Launching His Scented Candles? An in-depth investigation. By Erica Smith

power

the cut podcast The Border Patrol Agent I Know An immigration activist and reporter in conversation with an active-duty Border Patrol agent, on The Cut podcast. By the Cut
power Their Patients Have COVID-19 and Still Think It’s a Hoax Nurses treating coronavirus skeptics are being spit on and harassed. Many want to quit. By Angelina Chapin

power By Amanda Arnold Ivanka Probably Isn’t Welcome Back in New York City “Everyone with self-respect, a career, morals, respect for democracy … will steer clear.”

ask a boss ‘My Boss Keeps Inviting Herself Over to My House’ Even during non-pandemic times, this would be highly inappropriate — she is abusing her power by trying to force herself on people socially. By Alison Green

the body politic Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia “It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.” By Rebecca Traister

my two cents What Does Biden’s Student Loan Plan Mean for You? Breaking down what the president-elect can and can’t do without control of Congress. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done Earlier this month, Polina V. Lishko, a cellular and developmental biologist at UC Berkeley, was named a MacArthur fellow, a distinction for which she was awarded $625,000 in funding for her work in reproductive biology. Lishko’s research could assist the development of new, nonhormonal forms of contraception. Here, how she gets it done.

More Power

See All

self

gallery Every Story in America, Through One Neighborhood Photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally shares the experience of a mother who was evicted during the pandemic. gallery By Brenda Ann Kenneally
astrology Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of November 23 Neptune retrograde ends this week, and things may start to feel more hopeful. By Claire Comstock-Gay

coronavirus By Claire Lampen Denmark’s Slaughtered Mink Are Reportedly Rising From Their Graves Weeks after the country began culling the animals over coronavirus concerns, their decomposing bodies are resurfacing.

science of us What If Our Problems Feel Too Big for Therapy? Some employers are offering new options for mental-health support. But is that what employees want? By Katie Heaney

it's complicated I Wanted to Feel Athletic and Hot, So I Dated an Awful Jock We didn’t have anything in common but sex. By Shayna Goodman

parenting The Children of Quarantine What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain? By Lisa Miller

the bigger picture I took this portrait of my friends Cloe and Max on the last day before we all went into Quarantine. A group of my friends who live close to me decided to go to the beach one last time before we all separated. There was an almost surreal quality to it — like we all knew that life was going to be a lot different in the coming months.

health So When Exactly Will a COVID Vaccine Be Ready? Everything you need to know about the most promising candidates, how they’ll be distributed, and what happens after. By Amanda Arnold
cruise ships ‘All People’ Should Avoid Cruise Ships, CDC Warns In case you needed a government agency to tell you. By Hannah Gold

More Self

See All

culture

ch-ch-changes Jenna Lyons Is Back And she hopes you still like her. By Kathleen Hou
cut covers Mitra Jouhari’s Airhead Act The comedian is an overachieving perfectionist—but she loves playing the idiot. By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

hotshot By Claire Lampen Haggard Tree Undergoes Stunning Glow-Up The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree got extensions.

fixations I Think About Carrie’s Farewell Dinner a Lot Why was it so lame? By Brock Colyar

encounter Mackenzie Davis Is Overwhelmed Too Talking 2020 with the co-star of Hulu’s new lesbian holiday rom-com, Happiest Season. By Esmé Weijun Wang

you know what i heard What Will Become of Olivia Jade? And more in this week’s celebrity gossip column. By Allie Jones

fear vs. fun Eight New Yorkers on Partying During COVID “I’m aware that what we are doing is pretty stupid because we’re putting mad people at risk. For some reason, we still kept doing it.” By James D. Walsh
fear vs. fun New York Nightlife Never Stopped. It Just Moved Underground. After hours in the contagious city. By Brock Colyar
how i get it done How Instagram’s Favorite Teen Comedian Gets It Done Talking to pandemic breakout star Elsa Majimbo about self-confidence, embracing the awkward, and newfound internet fame. By Brock Colyar

More Culture

See All

Best of The Cut

parenting The Children of Quarantine What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain? By Lisa Miller
power America, You Owe Me We have been patient, and America owes Black people whatever it has to give. By Camonghne Felix
fear vs. fun Eight New Yorkers on Partying During COVID “I’m aware that what we are doing is pretty stupid because we’re putting mad people at risk. For some reason, we still kept doing it.” By James D. Walsh
fear vs. fun New York Nightlife Never Stopped. It Just Moved Underground. After hours in the contagious city. By Brock Colyar
fear vs. fun How New York’s Night Owls Spend Their Days Now For these DJs, producers, bouncers, and performers, the show must go on. By Emilia Petrarca
the body politic Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia “It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.” By Rebecca Traister
the body politic America’s ‘Daughters’ Grow Up To Be Women It Can’t Handle Defiant young girls have become a political symbol in a country that fears grown women. By Rebecca Traister
the cut podcast She Had COVID For Months. No One Believed Her. Chimére felt like she was losing her mind. Then she found a community of people with the same surprising symptoms. By Anna Silman
first person COVID Took My Grandfather. But It Wasn’t What Killed Him. His death, six months into the pandemic, is as political as it is biological. By Sarah Jones
cut covers Mitra Jouhari’s Airhead Act The comedian is an overachieving perfectionist—but she loves playing the idiot. By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
four long years The Birth of an Extraordinary Modern Progressive Movement The last four years have been an era of radical right-wing rule in Washington — and of remarkable left-wing populist response. By Rebecca Traister
the bigger picture Prospect Park Is the (Only) Place to Be One October weekend of socially distanced socializing. By Emilia Petrarca

Show more best of The Cut articles

Mackenzie Davis Is Overwhelmed Too

The Latest

Fear Vs. Fun

Most Popular

Most Popular

Style

The Shopper

power

More Power

self

More Self

culture

More Culture

Best of The Cut