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Calvin Klein is Not a Cult I’d Want to Join

Designer Veronica Leoni spoke of “the cult of the body.” I can’t believe many would want to join. By Cathy Horyn

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How Should We Talk to Our Kids About Epstein?
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A Trip Into Tiffany’s 180-Year-Old Watch Vault

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Halle Berry Isn’t Backing Down

In love, onscreen, or from her righteous feud with Gavin Newsom.

culture Beware Pillion’s Slutty Little Glasses Alexander Skarsgård’s tantalizing wire frames are one of the most lethal weapons in romantic warfare. By Cat Zhang

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: February 15–21 The solar eclipse in Aquarius signals a dramatic, unexpected shift, while the sun’s move into Pisces later this week sharpens your intuition. By Claire Comstock-Gay

ruh roh The Olympics Has Reportedly Run Out of Condoms Somebody has severely underestimated the horniness of 3,000 young athletes bopping around Milan. By Emily Leibert

gone sale-ing The Best Presidents’ Day Sales to Shop This Weekend From Nordstrom, Brooklinen, Parachute, and more. By Hanna Flanagan
first person My Weed Addiction I’ve tried everything to quit cannabis over the years. But how do I give up something I love so much? By Courtney Kocak

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The Best Presidents’ Day Sales on Amazon By Bianca Nieves
What You Need From the Gap x HFR Collaboration By Chinea Rodriguez
The Best Presidents’ Day Sales to Shop This Weekend By Hanna Flanagan
All the Best Presidents’ Day Home Deals By Chinea Rodriguez

street style The Best Street Style From New York Fashion Week See our favorite looks from outside this season’s shows. By Chinea Rodriguez and Sarah Treacher
where did you get that? Where a Stylist Gets Her Sunglasses Shaniqua J’s go-to wardrobe staples include 12pm Studios, Gap, and Cartier. By Chinea Rodriguez
celebrity Happy Birthday to Hudson Williams’s Slutty Little Tie The Heated Rivalry star spent his last night being 24 dancing with Lola Tung and his mom. By Brooke LaMantia

fashion By Danya Issawi How Easy Is It to Avoid Polyester Clothing, Really? I went to some of today’s most popular stores to find out.

new york fashion week Proenza Schouler After Proenza Schouler Rachel Scott’s debut show focused on comfortable and practical looks — but it could have used a bit of novelty. By Cathy Horyn
new york fashion week 45 Years of Michael Kors The anniversary show was an exemplary display of know-how and timing. By Cathy Horyn
fashion A Sublimely Concise Marc Jacobs The designer, whose past five collections have featured extreme shapes, pares back. By Cathy Horyn

power Was Her Family a Social Experiment? Dorothy Roberts always thought her white father began studying interracial marriages after meeting her Black mother. Then she learned the truth. By Andrea González-Ramírez
power ‘That Could Have Been Me’: The Nurses Grieving Alex Pretti After CBP Killing “Most of us would do the same as Alex did, trying to help people to get out of unsafe situations.” By Andrea González-Ramírez

chapters By Brooke Nevils Lessons From My Me Too In 2017, I accused the Today show’s longest-serving anchor of sexual misconduct. I was no one’s perfect victim.

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career Ask a Boss: I Was Turned Down for a Raise — Now What? Fight for what you deserve, but don’t be afraid to walk away. By Alison Green

first person Hearing My Own Scream For months, Rümeysa Öztürk has been haunted by the cries of ICE detention — those of scared children, grieving mothers, barking guards — and her own. By Rümeysa Öztürk

personal finance You Will Probably Spend More on Wedding Prep Than You Think Even if you swear you won’t spend money on Botox and lasers, prepare yourself — the pressure is real. By Charlotte Cowles

career So you’ve written a culture-defining hit. Now what? It’s a difficult question for any writer, most recently Jennette McCurdy — the child star whose memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, became a bona fide literary phenomenon, selling more than 3 million copies. The answer, if you’re McCurdy, is: write a just-as-piercing novel. Here’s how she gets it done.

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health Parents Are Feeding Their Babies So Much Butter On TikTok, they’re convinced it’s a superfood. By Erica Schwiegershausen
parenting ‘Is It Okay to Cry in Front of My Kids?’ Showing them how we grieve, panic, or give into our exhaustion can be a good thing. The trick is figuring out exactly how much to let them see. By Amil Niazi

weddings By David Mack ‘My Mom Ruined My Wedding Day’ Six stories about rehearsal-dinner blowups, hurtful speeches, and, of course, mothers-in-law wearing white.

sex diaries This Week’s Sex Diary: The Woman Firing Her Fancy Matchmaker In this week’s story, a divorced 56-year-old hits it off with a much more interesting guy at a party. By Alyssa Shelasky

health Move Your Eyes, Change Your Life EMDR has entered the Zeitgeist and mainstream therapists’ offices. Does it matter that some practitioners have no idea how (or why) it works? By Melissa Dahl

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: Feb. 15–21 The solar eclipse in Aquarius signals a dramatic, unexpected shift, while the sun’s move into Pisces later this week sharpens your intuition. By Claire Comstock-Gay

sex ‘What It Took for Me to Finally Have an Orgasm’: The so-called pleasure gap continues to persist. Of course it doesn’t, it shouldn’t, have to be that way. Eight women who’d struggled to “finish” share the moment it eventually happened. This story is part of “Good in Bed,” a series exploring the ways we are — and aren’t — finding satisfaction right now.

astrology This Saturn in Aries Transit Is Going to Light Your World on Fire But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing! Seriously. By Aliza Kelly
first person Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group I thought I found my village. Instead, I was back in high school. By Ashley French

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culture Sweetpea Deserves Better From Industry The HBO finance drama cares more about the depravity of predatory men who buy sex than the interiority of the young women selling it. By Cat Zhang
culture Do You Have a Moment to Talk About How Mormons Conquered Pop Culture? How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets. podcast By Bridget Read

missing person By Julia Reinstein and Olivia Craighead What We Know About the Disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s Mother Local police detained and questioned a man in connection to Nancy’s disappearance. He’s since been released.

culture Beware Pillion’s Slutty Little Glasses Alexander Skarsgård’s tantalizing wire frames are one of the most lethal weapons in romantic warfare. By Cat Zhang

2026 winter olympics This Is What Ambition Looks Like Now Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito are proof you don’t have to punish yourself to succeed.

tv I Wish I Could Have a Screener of The Screener If The Studio can resonate for broad audiences, The Screener is well positioned to grab some of those same viewers. By Michel Ghanem

culture Beware Pillion’s Slutty Little Glasses Alexander Skarsgård’s tantalizing wire frames are one of the most lethal weapons in romantic warfare. By Cat Zhang
ruh roh The Olympics Has Reportedly Run Out of Condoms Somebody has severely underestimated the horniness of 3,000 young athletes bopping around Milan. By Emily Leibert
2026 winter olympics This Is What Ambition Looks Like Now Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito are proof you don’t have to punish yourself to succeed. By Cat Zhang

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fall fashion The Forever-35 Face The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless. By Bridget Read
self The Women Quietly Quitting Their Husbands Rather than deal with the inconveniences of divorce, more and more women over 40 are choosing to just check out. By Monica Corcoran Harel
power The Nanny Who Moved in and Wouldn’t Move Out A couple thought they’d found Mary Poppins. Until she refused to leave. By Bindu Bansinath
crime Who Was Cyberbullying Kendra Licari’s Teen Daughter? For a year, parents and school officials searched for the person behind the vicious, relentless texts. The culprit was under their noses all along. By Lauren Smiley
first person In Sickness and in Health Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart are not a couple — they’re family, she says. And they’re facing his ALS diagnosis, and what comes next, together. By Rebecca Gayheart and Jen Ortiz
style It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl A new generation has transformed the neighborhood — and reshaped the fantasy of New York City living. By Brock Colyar
body image The Era of Emaciation Celebrities and influencers have become worryingly thin. It’s impossible not to notice. By Angelina Chapin
spring fashion Bienvenido a Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio’s new album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, is a history lesson and a homecoming. By Jen Ortiz
beauty The Beauty Products Heated Rivalry Star Hudson Williams Uses to the Last Drop The Heated Rivalry star can’t get enough Skin1004 sunscreen, Beauty of Joseon serum, and an iRestore red-light helmet. By Carol Lee
fall fashion The True Story of Miley Cyrus And Family, In Their Own Words They fell apart, came back together, and kept dominating the charts. Now, Tish, Brandi, Miley, and Noah let us in on Cyrus lore. By Szilveszter Makó
spring fashion Buy All This, Look Rich How Quince, the one-stop shop for everything from cashmere sweaters to caviar, seduced a generation of jaded shoppers. By Chantal Fernandez
fall fashion What Happened at Wondermind? Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, flipped their mental-health journeys into a buzzy start-up. It all fell apart. By Angelina Chapin