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Meghann Fahy’s Master Plan After breaking out on TV, Fahy stars in a big-screen thriller this April. She won’t pressure herself to map out what’s next.

celebrity relationships Why Did Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Get Divorced Again? Revisiting the original Bennifer marital split amid reports that the exes have been “hanging out.” By Allie Jones

astrology Your Daily Horoscope, by Madame Clairevoyant: March 14, 2025 Take today to process whatever revelations the lunar eclipse provoked. Any insights you have now will be worth unpacking. By Claire Comstock-Gay

romance? Tiger Woods Might Be Dating Don Jr.’s Ex Vanessa Trump has reportedly been seeing the golfer for “several months.” By Emily Leibert

culture Stephanie Suganami Doesn’t Get Starstruck Even if her latest film, A24’s Opus, is all about celebrity disciples, she’s not one to fan out. By Brooke LaMantia
culture Yeehaw, Chappell Roan Is Back The pop star rolled out an infomercial-style lyric video for her new country-pop single, “The Giver.” By Cat Zhang

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18 Cute (But Not Too Cute) Pairs of Mary Janes By Chinea Rodriguez and Bianca Nieves
The 11 Best Shower Oils to Beat Dry Skin By Lauren Adhav and Maya Allen

beauty Some Acne Treatments Are Being Recalled Because of Carcinogens Following new FDA testing, La Roche-Posay is pulling one of its most popular benzoyl peroxide products. By Asia Milia Ware
beauty The Cut Beauty Closet 100 tried-and-true beauty products that won’t waste your coins. By the Cut

spring fashion By Cathy Horyn and Lindsay Peoples The Cut’s Fashion Critic on the Industry’s Past 10 Years Cathy Horyn speaks with Lindsay Peoples on the industry’s most influential designers and much more.

always shopping 18 Cute (But Not Too Cute) Pairs of Mary Janes Because adults deserve fun shoes too. By Chinea Rodriguez and Bianca Nieves
skin barrier week How to Repair Your Skin Barrier in 6 Steps You don’t need an appointment with a pro or a cartload of new products to strengthen your skin barrier. All it takes is six specific steps. By Jennifer G. Sullivan
fast fashion What’s Going On With the Pretty Little Thing Rebrand? The fast-fashion retailer is trading clubwear for the trad-wife aesthetic. By Chinea Rodriguez and Brooke LaMantia

trump 2.0 A Wannabe Influencer Is in Charge of Defending DOGE Cuts McLaurine Pinover, the chief spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management, has been posting #OOTD content from her office. By Olivia Craighead
power Mahmoud Khalil to Remain Detained in Louisiana for Now The Palestinian activist’s wife says she’s concerned he’ll miss the birth of their first child in late April. By Andrea González-Ramírez

power By Bindu Bansinath What We Know About the Disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki The 20-year-old college student was last seen walking on a beach in the Dominican Republic during a spring-break trip last week.

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career 10 Impressive Questions to Ask in a Job Interview To show employers you’re exceptional and to find out if it’s the right job for you. By Alison Green

power How Trans Teens Are Dealing With Trump 2.0, in Their Words “Being called your correct name and pronouns can be the difference between life and death.” By Anya Kamenetz

personal finance What It’s Like to Plan a $50,000 Party for a 5-Year-Old Meet the event planners behind the city’s fanciest kids’ parties. By Charlotte Cowles

career The National Women’s Soccer League was facing a watershed moment when Jessica Berman, a former labor lawyer, came on as commissioner in 2022. She didn’t waste any time, overseeing negotiations that took the NWSL from a $4.5 million deal with CBS to a $240 million contract across multiple broadcasters. And that was just the start. Here’s how she gets it done.

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self Who Is The Let Them Theory Really For? I road tested the popular self-help premise — during a particularly stressful weekend — to see if it could actually help me unclench. By Katie Heaney
self Brain Fog Is Here to Stay Until the pandemic, I had never heard the term. Now it seems like everyone has it, whether they have long COVID or not. By Katie Arnold-Ratliff

advice By Emily Gould ‘My Friends Abandoned Me When They Had Kids’ You need to pick one or two friendships and fight for them. The rest are probably lost.

sex diaries The 28-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want Her Boyfriend to Propose In this week’s story, a woman wonders if she can look past her boyfriend’s issues in bed. By Alyssa Shelasky

relationships The Sex Sabbatical That Redefined My ‘Sexless Marriage’ Burned out from “working” on our intimacy, my husband and I hit pause. The break brought us closer — not just my husband and me, my desire and me. By Sarah Wheeler

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: March 9–15 An intense week leads up to a lunar eclipse on Friday, which could force you to confront some hard truths. Mercury retrograde follows soon after. By Claire Comstock-Gay

keep it moving If your only encounter with roller derby is Drew Barrymore’s movie Whip It, you should know that the Gotham Roller Derby skaters are serious about their sport. “The only difference between me and a professional athlete is that I’m not getting paid — in another world, this would be our full-time job,” says Molly Reitman (roller-derby name: Goddamn Goddamn).

parenting That Pandemic Drowning Feeling Is Back We’re five years “post-COVID.” How is parenting still just as hard? How is anything? By Amil Niazi
how i got this baby The Mom Who Escaped the Altadena Fire With a Disabled Child and a Newborn “All my daughter’s equipment burned — every single bit of it.” By April Daniels Hussar

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culture A Streetcar Named Desire’s Unhorny Opening Night The crowd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music seemed to be there for the pure love of theater, not the star. By Cat Zhang
cooking Julie & Julia–ing With Love, Meghan Putting the Duchess of Sussex’s recipes — and Montecitoiness — to the real-world test. By Tom Smyth

celebrity By Emily Leibert, Olivia Craighead, and Claire Lampen Unpacking Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s Legal Showdown Several lawsuits and dozens of leaked text messages later, the It Ends With Us co-stars have a 2026 trial date.

culture Yeehaw, Chappell Roan Is Back The pop star rolled out an infomercial-style lyric video for her new country-pop single, “The Giver.” By Cat Zhang

encounter There Is Only One Aimee Lou Wood She was a fan favorite on Sex Education, and now she’s a breakout on The White Lotus. Get used to seeing a lot of her. By Douglas Greenwood

now streaming 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies to Stream Now From Moonlight to Bottoms. By Katja Vujić

culture Freakier Friday Does, in Fact, Look Freakier But Chad Michael Murray’s motorcycle is sticking around. By Cat Zhang
engagements Normani and DK Metcalf Are Engaged The couple was introduced by Ciara and Russell Wilson three years ago. By Emily Leibert
celebrity relationships Why Did Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Get Divorced Again? Revisiting the original Bennifer marital split amid reports that the exes have been “hanging out.” By Allie Jones

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fertility Embryos Out of Reach When a Nashville fertility clinic abruptly closed its doors in April, patients demanded answers. Months later, they’re still waiting. By Rae Nudson
chapters My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired. How failure changed my relationship to work. By Samhita Mukhopadhyay
keep it moving The Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark Drama Is Only The Beginning Is this what “growing the game” looks like? What the media frenzy says about the WNBA now. By Emma Carmichael
cut covers Meghann Fahy’s Master Plan After breaking out on TV, Fahy stars in a big-screen thriller this April. She won’t pressure herself to map out what’s next. By Jessica Goodman
relationships My Husband Was Paralyzed. Then We Opened Our Marriage. “People say you’ll feel guilt. No, you don’t. I love my husband, but I’m like, Hell yeah, finally.” By Bindu Bansinath
culture In Gabby Windey We Trust How reality TV’s Renaissance woman went from Bachelor Nation to stealing hearts on The Traitors. By Katie Heaney
relationships I Thought Fighting Was My Love Language. Then I Got Divorced. Only then did I realize that I let banter disguise our serious issues. By Scaachi Koul
self How Balding Treatments Became the New Botox Inside the shiny new brick-and-mortar med spas trying to capitalize on receding hairlines. By Bianca Bosker
fall fashion Anora Star Mikey Madison Is Having a Fairy-Tale Year After giving up competitive horseback riding to pursue acting, the Anora star won the Academy Award for Best Actress. By Ruth Madievsky
power How Trans Teens Are Dealing With Trump 2.0, in Their Words “Being called your correct name and pronouns can be the difference between life and death.” By Anya Kamenetz
power Don’t Fall for Candace Owens’s Rebrand For millions of viewers, her coverage of the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni case has become a gateway to the right-wing commentator’s universe. By E.J. Dickson
noticing Can I Boom Boom? Falling for, and fretting over, the gilded and greedy new aesthetic. By Emilia Petrarca