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Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of May 25

Communication planet Mercury enters emotional Cancer this week. By Claire Comstock-Gay

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sex diaries By the Cut The Digital Advertiser Trying Out New Positions With Her Partner This week’s sex diary.

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fixations I Think About This Photo of Prince William With Hair a Lot It’s not just that he looks like a completely different person but like he’s lived a completely different life. By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

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space of the week A Textile Designer’s At-Home Treasures Clare Louise Frost is quarantined in her Brooklyn apartment, surrounded by Moroccan serving bowls and Afghan trunks. By Wendy Goodman

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the wedding files The Childhood Sweethearts Who Eloped to the Mountains Their families joined later for hot pot and cake. By Kaitlin Menza
they seem cool The Model Obsessed With French Queer Cinema Meet Nikki Cano. By Devine Blacksher

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crime What We Know About the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Arbery was out for a jog when Gregory and Travis McMichael chased him down in a truck, armed with guns. They’ve now been charged with murder. By Bridget Read and Claire Lampen
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tara reade By Sarah Jones High-Profile #MeToo Attorney Will No Longer Represent Tara Reade Douglas Wigdor said his decision to drop her as a client is not a judgment of her claim’s truthfulness.

ask a boss ‘My Boss Keeps Pressuring Me to Stop Working from Home’ Some managers assume that their trustworthy employees will suddenly transform into slackers if no one’s watching them. It’s insulting. By Alison Green

power Breonna Taylor Was Shot and Killed by Police in Her Own Home As Taylor and her boyfriend lay sleeping, police barged into her apartment, in what her family is calling a “botched raid.” Here’s what we know. By Bridget Read

my two cents ‘Might as Well Use This Time to Get a Divorce’ Some couples are fixing up their homes. Others are prepping their papers. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D., “the climate psychologist,” trained in clinical psychology and worked as a therapist until 2014, when she left her practice to found The Climate Mobilization, a volunteer organization dedicated to initiating a transformation of the economy, politics, and society to respond to the climate emergency. Here’s how she gets it done.

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coronavirus So Long, Summer In New York, summer functions like a promise, one that is now broken. By Bridget Read
book excerpt The Last Time We Had Sex There is something vulgar about how careless he is with pleasure. By Stephanie Danler

coronavirus By Claire Lampen, Hannah Gold, and Amanda Arnold Everything to Know About the Coronavirus in the United States More than 97,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19.

science of us You Need a Schedule For days when it’s hard to make yourself do stuff. By Charlotte Cowles

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

read with us Our Mothers, Before Us What can we learn from images of the women we never met? By Edan Lepucki

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."

love these days Shouldn’t Disaster Bring Us Closer? Couples therapists unpack this common trope. By Katie Heaney
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encounters Victoria Monét Is Ready to Be a Solo Star The “7 Rings” writer is breaking out on her own. By Lakin Starling
celebrity Has Isolation Left You Starved for Gossip? Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui on what we can learn from celebrity scuttlebutt in a pandemic. By Emilia Petrarca

keeping up with the royals By Claire Lampen Looks Like ‘Megxit’ Was Actually Prince Harry’s Idea Just as we suspected.

fixations I Think About This Photo of Prince William With Hair a Lot It’s not just that he looks like a completely different person but like he’s lived a completely different life. By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

they seem cool The Model Obsessed With French Queer Cinema Meet Nikki Cano. By Devine Blacksher

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

the bigger picture Alice Zoo’s Photographs Explore How Memory Is Recorded “I was taking this dark thing and giving it a shape and a name.” By Devine Blacksher
the bigger picture A Photographer Puts the Pandemic into Perspective “This project makes me think about the things that are bigger than myself.” By Gretty Garcia
fixations I Think About This a Lot: The ‘Happy’ Ending of Wall-E Yes, the space people return to Earth, but what are they supposed to do with a planet full of garbage? By Hannah Selinger

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