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Should You Worry About What Your Kid’s Friends Think of You?

I have come to accept that when my children have friends over, they are going to notice things I wish they didn’t. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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Inside: Worship at the altar of Robyn, spend a day off with Katseye, look inside Steve Lacy’s mind, and welcome New York’s First Lady Rama Duwaji.

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I Own 14 Pairs of Glasses. Here’s Where I Actually Shop. By Chinea Rodriguez
The Best Nordstrom Winter Sale Deals to Shop This Weekend By Chinea Rodriguez
A Shopping Editor’s Favorite Brown Mascaras By Hanna Flanagan
The Humidifiers We’ve Been Relying On All Winter By Carol Lee

spring fashion Steve Lacy’s Growing Pains The 27-year-old musician’s career skyrocketed with a viral hit and a Grammy win. Now he’s readjusting. By Rob Franklin
spring fashion Worshipping at the Altar of Robyn We invited musicians, artists, and tastemakers to ask the elusive pop legend anything — absolutely anything — ahead of the release of her ninth album. By Cat Zhang
beauty Want to Smell Like CBK? You’ll Have to Wait. The only purveyor of her rumored go-to scent is still waiting to restock their eBay listing. By Carol Lee

fashion friend By Hanna Flanagan How Can I Shop My Boyfriend’s Closet? Allison Bornstein shares tips for using the best menswear looks as style inspiration.

in conversation Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons: There’s Too Much Fashion Now Interviewed by Robin Givhan, the Prada co–creative directors worry the industry is all over the place and clothes are all starting to look the same. By Robin Givhan
fashion It Takes a Lot to Dress This French Over three days, 40 Parisians from all across the city sat for a series of portraits and nosy questions about their clothes. By Liam Freeman
spring fashion A Spanish Road Trip With Loewe’s New Creative Directors It’s increasingly rare for designers to get offline to find inspiration. So I persuaded Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough to go on a road trip. By Cathy Horyn

power The Doctors Who Helped Epstein Keep His ‘Girls’ in Shape “Do you remember the gynecologist you used to send your victims to?” By E.J. Dickson
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

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 Job-Hunt Without My Boss Finding Out?’ Remember that it’s a totally normal thing to do (but some light fibbing could make the process a little easier). By Alison Green

power How Many Woody Allen Movies Did Jeffrey Epstein Help Cast? Their emails show the lengths Epstein went to get his female “assistants” onscreen. By E.J. Dickson

personal finance ‘He Would Flip If He Knew How Expensive My Hair Is’ Three women on the beauty costs they hide from their husbands. 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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parenting The Gentle-Parenting Trap My greatest fear is pushing my daughter away. Maybe I went too far to keep her close. podcast By Monica Corcoran Harel
self The ‘Last 20 Pounds’ Pill The new Wegovy is for people who never thought they would use a GLP-1 — whether they just had a baby or are going into menopause. By Angelina Chapin

advice By Allison P. Davis ‘Help! I’m the Last Single Friend in My Group Chat.’ First things first: Stop thinking you’re better than all the other single people.

sex diaries The Ex-Orthodox Jewish Mom Hooking Up With Four Guys This week, a divorced 32-year-old lawyer meets men after work. By Alyssa Shelasky

advice ‘My Friend Won’t Stop Texting Me AI Slop!’ If you’re sick of the corny memes, lead by example: Send her some bad homemade drawings instead. By Amy Rose Spiegel

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: Feb. 22–28 Communication is further muddled as Mercury (in foggy Pisces) begins its retrograde on Thursday. Be willing to admit when you’re wrong. 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.

relationships I Love My Husband (Who Hates Me) Nothing inspires rage like a woman who defends her partner’s bad behavior. By Bindu Bansinath
astrology This Mercury Retrograde Will Be Worse Than Usual Things are going to get weird, friends. Prepare to work extra hard to make sure you’re actually rooted in reality. By Aliza Kelly

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bravoholics Lisa Rinna Is Owning It All Over Again The former Bravo villain turned Traitors favorite sets the record straight on her tumultuous Housewives exit — and everything else, too. By Tom Smyth
spring fashion Katseye’s Day Off Thirty-six hours. Six pop stars. Twenty-four spring looks. Playing dress-up with the girl group of the moment. By Brooke LaMantia

movies By Olivia Craighead Is Jack Harlow the World’s Greatest Film Bro? The rapper’s Letterboxd account reveals some truly impeccable taste.

books The Third Heated Rivalry Book Has Been Delayed Rachel Reid announced that Unrivaled has been pushed to 2027. By Olivia Craighead

spring fashion Zara Larsson, Slayyyter & More on New Music & Personal Style Keeping up with the next big thing in music can feel like cramming for a never-ending final exam. Here, we put together a colorful cheat sheet.

culture American Girl Is Having a Midlife Crisis As the brand turns 40, it’s targeting nostalgic millennials with a Samantha book for adults. But that’s not what American girls and women really need. By Margaret Hartmann

reptiles Bobby Cannavale Is Loving His Bearded Dragon It’s named after Benson Boone. By Olivia Craighead
feet Benny Blanco Is Defending His Dirty Feet Apparently it wasn’t his fault. By Olivia Craighead
the traitors Rob Rausch Says He’s Buying Maura Higgins a Birkin It’s the least he can do. By Olivia Craighead

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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