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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.

beauty What’s Going on With Synthetic Braiding Hair? A Consumer Reports study finds it’s more harmful than you might think. By Chinea Rodriguez
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beauty Perfume Culture Is Starting to Stink A booming fragrance industry promises the world. But what if it’s just sealing us off from it? By Cat Zhang

power Arrested Columbia Graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s Wife Speaks Out After a hearing on Wednesday, the Palestinian activist’s wife accused the Trump administration of kidnapping him. By Andrea González-Ramírez
politics We Are Not Meeting the Moment Democracy is facing a five-alarm fire, but you wouldn’t know that from Democrats’ largely subdued response to Trump’s address to Congress. By Laura Bassett

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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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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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.

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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

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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
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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.

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cut chats Now Is the Time to Watch Doctor Odyssey All aboard! If you’re not already taking a weekly trip on the Odyssey, do yourself a favor and tap in now. By the Cut

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
celebrity Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Paintball Saga Continues Now, anonymous sources are saying Garner’s boyfriend, John Miller, is upset about photos of the couple hugging. By Olivia Craighead
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chapters My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired. How failure changed my relationship to work. By Samhita Mukhopadhyay
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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
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