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The artist is excited for her husband Zohran Mamdani’s new job. Just don’t call her the mayor’s plus-one.

would i do it again? I Am Desperate to Get Rid of My Permanent Eyeliner The laser may have turned my lashes white, but it’s all worth it. By Olivia Cassity and Carol Lee

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: February 1–7 The Leo full moon on Sunday pushes you to be brave, while later in the week, Uranus ends its retrograde and allows you to make necessary change. By Claire Comstock-Gay

sex diaries The Woman Who Gives Her Hookup Her Thong This week, a freelance writer and podcaster has her first brush with ethical nonmonogamy. By Alyssa Shelasky

in memoriam Celebrities Remember Catherine O’Hara Macaulay Culkin, Pedro Pascal, and more shared tributes to the actress, who died on Friday. By Olivia Craighead
parenting Do Parents Belong at the Front Lines of Civil Disobedience? Talking to parents who’ve been arrested while participating in protests about what motivates their activism and how they talk to their kids about it. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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The Best Ballet Flats for Every Style and Occasion By Hanna Flanagan
The Best Body Scrubs for Smoother, Softer Skin By Chinea Rodriguez
Hudson Williams’s Favorite Facial Device Is on Sale By Bianca Nieves
Here’s What to Gift the Men You Love This Valentine’s Day By Hanna Flanagan

paris couture week At Valentino, a Parisian Peep Show Inescapably, there was also erotic meaning in the presentation — though not so much in the clothing. By Cathy Horyn
gone sale-ing Hudson Williams’s Favorite Facial Device Is on Sale We can’t get enough. By Bianca Nieves
we tried this Dieux’s New Cream Is the Only Moisturizer You Need This Winter It’s formulated with one percent colloidal oatmeal, which calms itching, eczema, irritation, and inflammation. By the Cut

celebrity By Olivia Craighead Sydney Sweeney Launched Her Lingerie Brand With a Bra Stunt The actress might be in trouble for throwing bras all over the Hollywood sign to promote Syrn.

power Minnesotans Know What to Wear to ‘Fight Fascism’ in the Cold Protesters are turning out in the thousands, and bundling up, to push back against ICE in Minneapolis. By Danya Issawi
paris couture week The Fantastic Freshness of Chanel Matthieu Blazy’s debut couture collection for Chanel shows new possibilities in fashion. By Cathy Horyn
good scents This New Scent Is the Couture of Fragrance Dior’s Cuir Saddle reimagines what you think of a leather-inspired scent. By April Long

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
power Laverne Cox’s Life After DEI How the actress is managing, one year of Trump later. By Harron Walker

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 ‘How Do I Get My Co-worker to Stop Micromanaging Me?’ First, talk to your boss in case there’s something you’re missing. Then, boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. 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 ‘I Lost $300,000 to My Husband’s Secret Day Trading’ How one woman recovered after her husband spent all their savings — and more. 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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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
ask tefi ‘I’m Invisible in My Boyfriend’s Open Marriage. What Do I Do?’ Feeling lonely in a relationship can start to mess with your mental health — you need to hit pause whether you want to or not. By Tefi Pessoa

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 The Woman Who Gives Her Hookup Her Thong This week, a freelance writer and podcaster has her first brush with ethical nonmonogamy. By Alyssa Shelasky

self When Your Son Abuses Your Daughter Sibling sexual abuse forces parents to make an impossible choice: Do they forsake one child to protect the other? By Elizabeth Weil

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: Feb. 1–7 The Leo full moon on Sunday pushes you to be brave, while later in the week, Uranus ends its retrograde and allows you to make necessary change. 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.

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
self They’ll Be Your Mom for a Minute Five Redditors talk about what it’s like to role-play as a “mother” for strangers who need it most. By Brooke LaMantia

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culture The Moment Is for the Real Charli Heads The Charli XCX mockumentary, which premiered at Sundance, takes up the same themes the pop star has explored throughout her career. By Cat Zhang
winter olympics Here’s Who to Watch (and Root For) at the Olympics Alysa Liu, the Quad God, and a real-life Heated Rivalry situation have our attention at the Milano Cortina Games. By Olivia Craighead

politics By Olivia Craighead Does Anyone Want to See Melania’s Documentary? The box-office projections are not looking so good for FLOTUS’s big release.

in memoriam Celebrities Remember Catherine O’Hara Macaulay Culkin, Pedro Pascal, and more shared tributes to the actress, who died on Friday. By Olivia Craighead

culture Why Fans Aren’t Buying Colton Underwood’s Reality-TV Rebrand The onetime Bachelor is reintroducing himself on The Traitors. It isn’t going very well.

tv Let The Night Manager Seduce You Tom Hiddleston back on my screen as a sexy spy? Yes, please. By Michel Ghanem

in memoriam Celebrities Remember Catherine O’Hara Macaulay Culkin, Pedro Pascal, and more shared tributes to the actress, who died on Friday. By Olivia Craighead
obits Catherine O’Hara Has Died The legendary comedic actress was 71. By Olivia Craighead
heated rivalry Canada’s Prime Minister Is So Proud of Heated Rivalry He asked Hudson Williams to “do the leg thing.” By Julia Reinstein

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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