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Confessions of a Recovering Baby Woman

On the enduring fantasy of being “just a girl” — and how I finally decided to get a grip and grow up. podcast By Shannon Keating

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How Does a Taylor Swift Wedding at MSG Work, Really?
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‘It’s Following Me No Matter What — I Have to Make Meaning’
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David Harbour Is Not Beefing With Millie Bobby Brown, Okay?
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Masters of the Universe Is a Himbo Fantasy
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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Advertising Luxury Israeli Real Estate

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Getting Married in This Economy?

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till debt do us part

stories about the ever-escalating costs of getting hitched.

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On the covers: Robyn, Katseye, Steve Lacy, Rama Duwaji. Inside: Midlife crisis or ADHD? RIP, leggings. Roadtripping with Loewe. The gentle-parenting trap. The husbands who hate their wives. Tween skincare.

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Getting Married in This Economy? By Hanna Flanagan and Chinea Rodriguez
Our Beauty Writer’s Favorite Early Prime Day Beauty Deals By Carol Lee
How to Shop for a Wedding-Guest Dress on The RealReal By Hanna Flanagan
What Cut Editors Are Gifting Their Dads This Father’s Day By Hanna Flanagan

tastemakers Where to Vintage Shop in Los Angeles, According to a Prada Aficionado Cierra O’day Johnson recommends Scout and A Current Affair for vintage shoppers. By Evan Nicole Brown
parenting Inside the ‘Unboring, Ungendered’ World of Milk Teeth How the children’s clothing brand, known for its oversize silhouettes and squiggly prints, won over toddlers (and their parents). By Maria Bobila
fashion friend ‘What Should I Wear to Go Out This Summer?’ Stylist Allison Bornstein’s going-out-top ideas for summer that are anything but basic. By Hanna Flanagan

culture By Emily Leibert Olivia Rodrigo Thinks You’re Being Weird About Her Dress The singer shut down claims that she was infantilizing herself.

beauty Unpacking the Patrick Ta Transition-Blush Drama The makeup artist is promoting his newest product with a technique that looks suspiciously like Painted by Esther’s signature look. By Asia Milia Ware
always shopping The Cut Editors’ Favorite Shoes for Traveling From sandals to sneakers. By Chinea Rodriguez
culture It’s Not About the Babydoll Dress The Olivia Rodrigo freak-out is another example of how quickly pop-culture history is forgotten. By Brittany Spanos

power ‘It’s Following Me No Matter What, So I Have to Make Meaning of It’ Nearly seven years ago, a Lyft driver raped Cristen Giangarra. She refuses to end her fight against the rideshare company until justice is served. By Andrea González-Ramírez
first person The Women Who Taught Me to Be a Tradwife Over Bible-study doughnuts and discipleship-group tea, I learned the rules of submission. podcast By Britt Tisdale

power By Angelina Chapin The Girlbossification of AI Reese Witherspoon, Mel Robbins, and Sheryl Sandberg are telling women to use ChatGPT or get left behind.

Life After Roe

ask a boss What to Do If You Were Just Laid Off Yes, there are things you can do right now to lessen the amount of time you’re likely to be out of work. By Alison Green

power The Great Numbing Out Why formerly politically engaged people are in a state of paralysis this time around. By Andrea González-Ramírez

personal finance The Man Who Puts Billionaires in Rehab Oftentimes, this means flying them to Florida on a private jet where they can be held against their will. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done DonYé Taylor is part creative director, part cultural observer, part emotional translator for a generation of women who are tired of being told to go niche when their real gift is their range. She isn’t just building products or posting inspiration; she’s building language for people who are still becoming themselves. Here’s how she gets it done.

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ask tefi ‘I Like Someone 7 Years Older Than Me — Is Dating Them a Bad Idea?’ Your choices are to possibly get hurt or always wonder what could have been, so you might as well ask the girl out. By Tefi Pessoa
parenting Yearning for a Third Child Did I really need another baby for my family to be complete? By Lydia Kiesling

first person By Xochitl Gonzalez Should We All Start Smoking Cigarettes Again? We quit our bad habits for the sake of our future selves. How naïve of us.

sex diaries The Married Woman Having Sex With a Stranger In this week’s story, an adult-education coordinator meets a guy for a casual hookup, then cuddles with her wife. By Alyssa Shelasky

health A Drugstore Secret for Treating Perimenopause and PMDD? “Women will go to their doctors and say, ‘I take Allegra and Pepcid and my PMDD symptoms go away. It’s like magic.’” But does it really work, and why? By Katie Heaney

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: June 7–13 Practicality wins as Neptune begins its retrograde. Then, Venus enters Virgo, which means living up to your promises is more important than ever. 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.

chapters My Postpartum Addiction After my daughter’s traumatic birth, alcohol was my only comfort. By Hayden Panettiere
self Midlife Crisis–ing in the End-times Older millennials now have less money and more problems than ever before. Basically, we’re in retrograde. By Amil Niazi

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music It’s a Naomi Scott Summer Her debut album, ‘F.I.G,’ is juicy and sensual with its own subtle tartness. Take a bite. By Cat Zhang
culture Tech Without Bros A growing cohort of queers and femmes are building tech on their own terms. podcast By Cat Zhang

culture By Cat Zhang Jack Harlow: A Hatvestigation Where — and why — did he get that honk-shoo headgear and those double-decker caps?

bravoholics How Summer House’s Kyle Cooke Became the Hero After weeks of screaming at his wife on-camera, he was supposed to be the villain. Instead he got the redemption arc no one saw coming. By Allie Jones

culture The Open Era Author Edward Schmit Says the Honey Deuce Is Always Worth It The author’s queer tennis romance set during the U.S. Open will have you itching to pull your racket out of the closet and hit the courts this summer.

star wars They Tricked Me Into Loving a Star Wars Character The Mandalorian and Grogu’s press tour has me completely smitten by an animatronic puppet. By Olivia Craighead

celebrity weddings How Does a Taylor Swift Wedding at MSG Work, Really? Her rumored venue seems almost too bonkers to be true. By Olivia Craighead
celebrity David Harbour Is Not Beefing With Millie Bobby Brown, Okay? According to him, they “love” and “adore” each other. By Olivia Craighead
superheroes Masters of the Universe Is a Himbo Fantasy In praise of Nicholas Galitzine’s hunky He-Man. By Michael Cuby

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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 may not have been a couple, but they remained family. Revisit Gayheart’s essay about facing his ALS diagnosis 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