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  1. language
    Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?The pernicious spread of garbage language.
    By Molly Young
  2. feature
    The Stolen Kids of Sarah LawrenceWhat happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?
    By Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh
  3. feature
    A Year’s Diary of Climate ReckoningSome scientists say the best way to combat climate change is to talk about it. For 2019, my New Year’s resolution was to do just that.
    By Emily Raboteau
  4. profile
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Already Changed D.C. It Hasn’t Changed Her Much.She reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.
    By David Freedlander
  5. crime
    The Complete List of Allegations Against Harvey WeinsteinBy our count, 100 women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault or harassment against Weinstein, who has denied any criminal wrongdoing.
    By Amelia Schonbek
  6. crime
    100 Women vs. Harvey WeinsteinThe disgraced movie mogul finally faces his day in court. But as his accusers know best, there might not be a Hollywood ending.
    By Irin Carmon
  7. 2019 in review
    The Cut’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2019Including a viral Ask Polly, influencer drama, and incels going under the knife.
    By the Cut
  8. who were the 2010s?
    Kim Kardashian West on Her Decade of Multi-Platform FameThroughout the 2010s, she demonstrably shifted American culture, changing the way we understand fame and the internet.
    By Jonathan Van Meter
  9. feature
    A Party Drug for the End of the WorldHow ketamine became the vice of choice for our dissociated moment.
    By Anna Silman
  10. self
    Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than EverThe company may have unwittingly created a fitness cult, but their business model is a little more complicated.
    By Amy Larocca
  13. the body politic
    Talking Teaching With Elizabeth Warren, the Most Professorial Candidate EverShe has been instructing students since she was 8 years old. But does America want to be taught?
    By Rebecca Traister
  14. cut covers
    Make Some Room for Naomi WatanabeThe unstoppable Japanese comedian is coming for America and the world.
    By Kathleen Hou
  15. parenting
    A Class Riot Among the One Percent at Brooklyn’s Oldest Nursery SchoolWhat happened when Grace Church School decided to become a little less old-fashioned? Lots of parent-teacher drama.
    By Jessica Pressler
  16. cut covers
    Linda Cardellini, Still Blooming“You can play the ingenue or you could play the woman who’s got a hunch on her back. And the hunchback was always my choice.”
    By Molly Lambert
  17. media
    The Wild Ride at Babe.NetThe Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.
    By Allison P. Davis
  18. crime
    Before, and After, the JoggerSurvivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.
    By Sarah Weinman
  19. health
    Measles for the One PercentVaccines, Waldorf schools, and the problem with liberal Luddites.
    By Lisa Miller
  20. feature
    How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.
    By Alice Hines
  21. no more plastic
    A Week Without PlasticIt turns out entirely avoiding single-use plastic is just as hard as it sounds.
    By Maggie Lange
  22. feature
    Astrology Is Serious Business, Even If It’s Not RealIn a demographic desperate for reassurance, a customized cosmos is a very valuable proposition.
    By Amy Larocca
  25. from the archives
    Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of FashionThe late designer had opinions on everything — even his own death.
    By Vanessa Grigoriadis
  26. power
    17 Women Talk About Being Left Behind by #MeTooWe spoke with women from dozens of industries who remain unable to report sexual abuse and harassment.
    By Bernice Yeung
  27. profile
    Parkland Activist David Hogg Is Taking His Gap Year at the BarricadesFurious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what’s next.
    By Lisa Miller
  28. feature
    The Surprising True Story Behind Steve MaddenThe man behind the shoe box is revealed in a new documentary.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  29. select all
    The Millennial Walt Disney Wants to Turn Empty Stores Into Instagram PlaygroundsMaryellis Bunn, the 25-year-old co-founder of the Museum of Ice Cream, says retail is dead and experiences are the future.
    By Anna Wiener
  30. that's a bop
    Sharon Van Etten on Twin Peaks, Motherhood, and Her Many LivesThe singer-songwriter has a thousand careers.
    By Maggie Lange
  31. the body politic
    Inside Hillary Clinton’s Surreal Post-Election LifeWith nothing left to lose, she is finally free to really speak her mind.
    By Rebecca Traister
  32. feature
    How to Get Things Done: Oiselle’s CEO Shares Her SecretsOn boundaries, running as stress release, and knowing your own superpower.
    By Dayna Evans
  33. feature
    An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is the Fountain of YouthLeonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  34. motherhood
    My 4-Year-Old Speaks Fluent YouTubeWhat it’s like raising kids who’ve had screens since birth.
    By Lyz Lenz
  37. cut cover story
    Etsy’s Dream of a Shiny, Post-Capitalist (and Post-Profit) WorkplaceThe company wants to crochet its cake and eat it too.
    By Amy Larocca
  38. cut cover story
    Is Prostitution Just Another Job?Many sex workers think their work should be as legal as accounting. And American society is closer than ever to agreeing with them.
    By Mac McClelland
  39. feature
    Meet the Internet’s Most Famous Pimple-Popping DermatologistSandra Lee was a run-of-the-mill California doctor. Then she started filming as she exploded her patients’ pimples. 
    By Robert Moor
  40. scenes
    Palaces, Penises, and Parties With the Young Jet SetForty-eight hours in Gstaad, made for Instagram.
    By Maureen O'Connor
  41. profile
    Lucky Blue Smith Is the Most In-Demand Young Male Mormon Model on EarthThey call him “Little Fresh Meat” in China. (It’s very much a compliment.)
    By Lauren Bans
  42. feature
    The World Is Not Enough for Net-a-PorterA company that defined luxury e-commerce is now merging with its mass-market competitor.
    By Jessica Pressler
  43. portfolio
    The 7 Ages of Woman: A Fractured Fable of Femininity and MotherhoodA dark and beautiful exploration, based on a 16th-century painting by Hans Baldung.
    By Rachel Feinstein, Michael Cunningham, and John Currin
  44. feature
    35 Bill Cosby Accusers Tell Their StoriesOne by one, they came forward, finding safety in their staggering number and a world that was finally ready to believe them.
    By Noreen Malone and Amanda Demme
  45. portents
    When Did Humans Doom the Earth for Good?A scientific debate that’s oddly amusing to entertain: At what point, exactly, did mankind irrevocably put the planet on the road to ruin? 
    By Robert Sullivan
  46. the money
    How Physicians Actually Make Money These DaysOne internist opens his books: great calling, lousy business.
    By Joseph Hooper
  49. health
    5 New Yorkers Open Their Medicine CabinetsLike you haven’t looked at a stranger’s before.
    By Katy Schneider
  50. lab work
    Inside Memorial Sloan Kettering’s High-Speed Pathology LabIs it cancer? They’ll know in half an hour.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  51. sex
    The Everything Guide to the LibidoOysters don’t help, but monkey porn might … and other findings from the forefront of desire research.
    By Melissa Dahl and Kayleen Schaefer
  52. the brain
    How One Brain Came Back From UnconsciousnessA car accident left 19-year-old Dylan Rizzo in a coma. This is the story of the long, perilous crawl to recovery.
    By Stephen S. Hall
  53. fixations
    Why Is America Obsessed With Perfecting Its Teeth?The story of a rapidly expanding industry that has little reason to exist, except the clearest reason in the world.
    By Dan P. Lee
  54. feature
    Can Racism Be Stopped in the Third Grade?An experiment at Fieldston, which starts when 8-year-olds are sorted by race, has some very liberal parents fuming.
    By Lisa Miller