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‘This Is Breonna Taylor’s Home’: Scenes From Louisville

Photographer J.D. Barnes captures the anguish and the outrage over the grand jury’s decision in Breonna Taylor’s killing. By Claire Lampen

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What to Know About Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s SCOTUS Pick
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I Can’t Get Over This Perfect Skirt

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power By Lisa Miller Why Did I Think She Wouldn’t Die? I see now that attributing superhuman strength to Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t do her enough justice.

desperate times ‘Feels Like They Are Just Waiting for Us to Die’ On r/unemployment, thousands of desperate people have formed a community to step in where the government failed. By Bridget Read
money talks ‘None of Us Know When We’re Going Back to Work’ Three yoga and fitness instructors on trying to make ends meet during the last six months. By Charlotte Cowles

Style

first person Are You Aging Correctly? Ask yourself who benefits when women gracefully fade into the background. By Heather Havrilesky
campaign trail See the Fashion Campaigns for Fall 2020 From Prada, Michael Kors, Celine, Louis Vuitton, and more. gallery By Andrew Nguyen

the object of our affection By Andrew Nguyen I Can’t Get Over This Perfect Skirt From the sustainable (and sort of punk) British brand Chopova Lowena.

mfw spring 2021 Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons Set the Bar High In their debut collaboration. By Cathy Horyn
space of the week A Broadway Star Turns to Flowers Robbie Fairchild recently debuted his company, boo.kay NYC — and everything’s coming up roses (and peonies and lots more). By Wendy Goodman

The Shopper

How Do Dolphins Get Their Skin So Good? By Erica Smith
I’m Sorry to Tell You This Fancy Dental Floss Really Works By Kathleen Hou
How This New York–Based Beauty Writer Gets Her Skin So Good By Daise Bedolla
The Texture of This Moisturizer Is Oddly Satisfying By Kathleen Hou

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london fashion week The Pros and Cons of Digital Fashion Week All this freedom, but where does it leave us? By Cathy Horyn
nyfw spring 2021 See the Coach Spring 2021 Collection Worn by Megan Thee Stallion, Kate Moss, Cole Sprouse, and more. By Andrew Nguyen
fashion A Sweatpants Pioneer on the Future of Fashion It’s Norma Kamali’s time to shine. Again. By Emilia Petrarca

power

desperate times ‘Feels Like They Are Just Waiting for Us to Die’ On r/unemployment, thousands of desperate people have formed a community to step in where the government failed. By Bridget Read
first person I Never Expected Justice for Breonna Taylor How can this realism make way for hope? By Tyrese Coleman

scotus By Bridget Read What to Know About Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Amy Coney Barrett is a devout Catholic, and experts say there’s “no question” that she would overturn Roe v. Wade.

ask a boss ‘My Boss Wants Us On Zoom All Day Long’ Decent bosses know that monitoring isn’t the same as managing. By Alison Green

action items How to Become a Poll Worker Nationwide, we’re facing a shortage of volunteers to staff voting sites in the upcoming election. Here’s how to help. By Claire Lampen

money talks ‘None of Us Know When We’re Going Back to Work’ Three yoga and fitness instructors on trying to make ends meet during the last six months. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done Brushfire season on the West Coast is still raging, but 2020 has already seen four of the five largest wildfires on record in California. What is it like to work as a firefighter during these unprecedented conditions? Kerry Crivello joined the Los Angeles Fire Department in 2017 and works both as a firefighter and a paramedic. Here’s how she gets it done.

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self

hot bod Working Out in Virtual Reality, I Vanquish My Limited Self Wearing a headset makes me forget that I’m tired, that I’m exercising, that I even have a body at all. By Maggie Lange
astrology Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of September 21 Libra season begins this week! By Claire Comstock-Gay

cut opinion pages By Emilia Petrarca Just Celebrate Your Winter Birthday Now Why not?

science of us I Miss Having Ideas Come back. 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

first person I Never Expected Justice for Breonna Taylor How can this realism make way for hope? By Tyrese Coleman

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."

tiktok Please Do Not Try the ‘Benadryl Challenge’ The FDA has issued a warning against the dangerous TikTok trend, which has landed several teens in the hospital. By Amanda Arnold
coronavirus There Are Now More Than 7 Million COVID Cases in the U.S. And experts predict the death toll could reach 378,000 by the end of the year. By Claire Lampen, Hannah Gold, and Amanda Arnold

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culture

dream date Desus Nice Drinks Green Juice Now A Bodega Boy levels up in lockdown. By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
cut covers Chika Is for Lovers But even lovers have their limits. By Kiana Fitzgerald

what? By Madeleine Aggeler This Is Certainly Not the Future I Would Have Predicted Here’s a clip of virtual audience members dancing to Vin Diesel’s new dance single (?) on the Kelly Clarkson Show (?) .

fixations I Think About Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Dolphin Song’ a Lot There’s no larger metaphor, no innuendo, no irony. It’s just a song about dolphins. By Dina Gachman

first person Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image? By Emily Ratajkowski

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 Inside Pomegranate Press’ Fifth-Anniversary Book See photographs from 12 emerging artists. By Emily Burns
they seem cool The Artist Who’s Down to Clown Meet Tinkcolorful. By Devine Blacksher
fiction What Are You Going Through: A Novel Excerpt “A whole other feeling floods me when she reveals that she is in possession of a euthanasia drug.” By Sigrid Nunez

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the body politic It Shouldn’t Have Come Down to Her Some will try to blame Ruth Bader Ginsburg for not stepping down sooner. They are missing the point. By Rebecca Traister
remembrance The Glorious RBG I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth. By Irin Carmon
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the lost season Nicolas Ghesquière Just Wanted to Stay in California “If surprises don’t exist, then I’m quitting. I’m looking for another job.” By Cathy Horyn
the lost season Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski Is Ready for the Nurses to Take Over Instagram “I don’t think it’s about going back. It’s about how we can evolve.” By Cathy Horyn
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the lost season Rei Kawakubo Didn’t Stop Working for a Minute “To create means to keep looking for something new all the time, no matter where you are, no matter what kind of situation you are in.” By Cathy Horyn
the lost season Kerby Jean-Raymond Is Not Interested in the Scraps “Being able to have the resources to create our own systems. That’s what the end goal looks like to me.” By Cathy Horyn