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Vaughn, 35, is ready to settle down. Could Subhro, 31, be the one he leaves the streets for? By Emily Leibert

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Where Hunza G’s Founder Gets Her Favorite Swimwear By Chinea Rodriguez
The 19 Best Mineral Sunscreens to Buy By Bianca Nieves
The Best Sunscreens to Slather All Over Your Body By Chinea Rodriguez
These Are the Memorial Day Sales You Won’t Want to Miss By Hanna Flanagan

always shopping A Definitive List of the Best Flip-flops for Summer It’s about that time! By Hanna Flanagan
obsessive tester I Prefer Bronzers Over Blushes, and These Are My Favorites My research is in. By Chinea Rodriguez
wash day How a WNBA Champion Balances Wash Day and Game Days Cheyenne Parker-Tyus manages her curls with hydrating products from Innersense and Rizos Curls. By Chinea Rodriguez

beauty By Olivia Craighead How I Became a Zitfluencer Victoria Louie, a.k.a. Dewy Louie, went viral for documenting her acne journey. What happens next?

ask a beauty editor I Tried the Latest Skin Tightening Device From Korea Here’s what it’s like to get the buzzy new Korean skin-tightening treatment. By April Long
plastic surgery ‘The Things I Loved Aren’t There. Her Smile Is Different.’ The complicated conversations mothers and daughters have when one of them decides to go under the knife. By Danya Issawi
always shopping The Best Long-Sleeve T-shirts for In-Between Spring Weather From Cou Cou Intimates, Agolde, and Reformation. By Hanna Flanagan

power What Leads a Teen Boy to Commit Mass Violence? Authorities say the two teenagers who opened fire on the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three, became radicalized online. By Andrea González-Ramírez
power The Girlbossification of AI Reese Witherspoon, Mel Robbins, and Sheryl Sandberg are telling women to use ChatGPT or get left behind. By Angelina Chapin

power By Kathleen Walsh Are You ‘Underbabied’? Dr. Oz is worried about America’s fertility rate.

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career Should You Tell Your Boss You’re Taking a Mental-Health Day? No one needs to know why you’re calling out sick — would you tell your boss if you were projectile vomiting or having horrible cramps? 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 My Fiancé Wants Me to Sign a Prenup. What If It’s Not Fair? Don’t rush through this — it deserves care, attention, and a good lawyer. 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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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

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 Woman Whose Boyfriend Ghosts Her In this week’s story, a writer searches for answers and winds up in a motel. 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: May 24–30 Mercury and Uranus both in Gemini mean everyone is having a bit more fun. Plus, excitement builds in the run-up to next week’s full moon. 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.

parenting A New Parental Responsibility Just Dropped Highlights from Brooding’s first-ever live event with Odd Lots co-host Joe Weisenthal. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
advice ‘My Sister Is My Roommate, and She’s Sabotaging My Love Life’ She doesn’t see the progress you’ve made, and it feels dismissive. And patronizing. By Allison P. Davis

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tv Let Widow’s Bay Be Your Summer TV Destination Matthew Rhys plays the mayor of the most mysterious island TV has seen since Lost. By Michel Ghanem
mother's day The Real Housewives Who Raised Me I went through childhood looking for a mom. I found 181. podcast By Keerthi Harishankar

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

scene report Believe the Hype Brooklyn’s hottest party returned — along with Ellie, Zohran Mamdani, and every lesbian I’ve ever seen on Hinge — at the Liberty 2026 opener.

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

reality tv stars Lisa Rinna Will Not Be Voting for Spencer Pratt Or any reality star, for that matter. By Kathleen Walsh
american music awards Taylor Swift Is MIA at the AMAs She is nominated in eight categories. By Kathleen Walsh
culture Jack Harlow: A Hatvestigation Where — and why — did he get that honk-shoo headgear and those double-decker caps? 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 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