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Why Michelle Obama Wore That

During her years in the White House — and since — people obsessed over her style. That was strategy. By Michelle Obama

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The Beauty Products Lacy Redway Uses to the Last Drop By Carol Lee
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nyc mayoral race New York City’s Mayoral Race Is Dividing the Fashion Girlies Influencers are choosing sides in Mamdani versus Cuomo. By Danya Issawi
new vanguard Colleen Allen’s Clothes Are Actually History Lessons The CFDA-nominated designer, known for her whimsical silhouettes and bright colors, almost never “references anything contemporary.” By Danya Issawi
gone sale-ing What We’re Buying From Sephora’s Savings Event From beauty tools that rarely go on sale to the products we keep on auto-refill. By Asia Milia Ware

fashion By Danya Issawi The RealReal Is Being Sued Over Its Return Fees A class-action lawsuit alleges the luxury retailer manipulates customers into paying hidden costs.

wash day Long Hours at the Gym Can’t Stop Her Ginger Curls How Em Lora refreshes her curls and keeps her color vibrant after workouts. By Chinea Rodriguez
should you splurge? Funnel-Neck Jackets Are Trending — Is This Helsa Worth It? I tested it for two weeks to find out. By Hanna Flanagan
where did you get that? Where a Designer Gets Her Vintage Cartier Veronica de Piante shares her favorite tees for layering and her go-to sneakers. By Chinea Rodriguez

power How to Help Families Losing SNAP Benefits About 42 million people, including 16 million children, are set to lose food assistance starting on November 1. By Andrea González-Ramírez
career The Job Search Has Become a Humiliation Ritual “It feels like I’m trying to make my robots talk to their robots.” podcast By Sarah Thankam Mathews

power By Moa Short My Husband Told the Sheriff to Report Me to ICE I was American only when it was convenient for him. When I filed a protective order, he put my family in danger.

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career ‘I Was a Sloppy, Gossipy Drunk at the Company Party’ You will get past this if you make a point of being scrupulously professional from now on. By Alison Green

chapters The Best Doctors Are Abortion Providers To most of the medical system, pregnant people are secondary to the fetuses they carry. By Irin Carmon

personal finance Taking GLP-1s to Get Ahead at Work “The truth is, I’m taking it because I’m afraid not to.” By Charlotte Cowles

career Writer Bess Wohl’s play Liberation pays loving tribute to her mother’s era of bold feminism, following a poignant, funny, and often jarring women’s consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio. It’s her second play to make it to Broadway — her first, Grand Horizons, earned her a Tony nomination in 2020. Here’s how she gets it done.

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self The Truth About IFS, the Therapy That Can Break You Internal Family Systems is a widely popular trauma treatment. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives. podcast By Rachel Corbett
ask tefi ‘Should I Cut Off My Friend for Secretly Getting Back Together With Her Ex?’ This friendship doesn’t have to end, but it may have to pause. By Tefi Pessoa

parenting By E.J. Dickson Do ‘Deeply Feeling Kids’ Really Exist? Dr. Becky’s concept is hugely influential. But is it preventing some neurodivergent children from getting diagnoses?

sex diaries The Woman Choosing Between a ‘Sturdy Lover’ and a Nice Guy In this week’s story, a conflicted woman takes one guy to her BFF’s birthday party and goes apple picking with another: 25, single, Manhattan. By Alyssa Shelasky

the bigger picture ‘My Life With ALS’: A Week In Brooke Eby’s Life Behind the Phone Camera Lens Online, Brooke Eby has shown her many followers what navigating her 30s with the neurodegenerative disease looks like. Here, a week behind the screen. By Brooke Eby and Katie C. Reilly

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: Nov. 2–8 Determination is rewarded by the full moon in Taurus, but your attention might wander with Mars in Sagittarius. 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.

health How Far Would You Go for a Breast? For some women, reconstruction after mastectomy is a process riddled with complications and disappointment — that lasts years longer than treatment. By Melissa Dahl
parenting Young People Are Helicopter-Parenting Themselves and Each Other And just like their parents before them, their vigilance is suffused with anxiety. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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books By Jasmine Vojdani 18 Well-Read People on How, Exactly, They Find the Time We ask book critics, authors, Substackers, New York staffers, and more.

scene report I Had a $241 Dinner at Travis Kelce’s New Restaurant Who is 1587 Prime for if not Taylor Swift? By Mia Mercado

happy hour Yapping for Human Rights The 50-something Oklahoman hosts of the wildly popular I’ve Had It podcast are fed up with Bible thumpers, centrist Democrats, and triple-Trumpers.

culture The Fashion in After the Hunt Is the Ultimate Power Wardrobe Costume designer Giulia Piersanti talks about toying with gender roles and authority with blazers. Lots of blazers. By Samantha Bergeson

bravoverse Vanderpump Rules Is Back With a New Cast Season 12 will premiere on December 2 on Bravo. By Elizabeth Gulino
celebrity Carly Rae Jepsen Is Going to Be a Mom The singer is expecting her first child with music producer Cole M.G.N. By Elizabeth Gulino
celebrity Martha Stewart Isn’t Impressed With Today’s Tradwives “I was just as pretty as those girls, and more organized.” By Erica Schwiegershausen

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chapters My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired. How failure changed my relationship to work. By Samhita Mukhopadhyay
keep it moving The Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark Drama Is Only The Beginning Is this what “growing the game” looks like? What the media frenzy says about the WNBA now. By Emma Carmichael
beauty The Cut Beauty Closet 100 tried-and-true beauty products that won’t waste your coins. By the Cut
power Gazans Are Starving to Death. Here’s How to Help. Now that a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is in effect. By Andrea González-Ramírez
fall fashion The Temptations of Andrew Garfield After years of playing the hero, the actor steps into the role of villain in After the Hunt. By Ryu Spaeth
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
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culture Tramell Tillman Is in Bloom The Emmy-winning Severance actor has had a big year — but he always makes time to stop and smell the flowers. By Katja Vujić
fall fashion ‘I Wanted to Have Something to Give My Daughter From Gaza’ Escaped Palestinian women tell the stories of the few relics they have of home. By Danya Issawi
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power Can RFK Jr. Track My Oura Ring? The HHS secretary says he wants all Americans to start wearing health-tracking devices. Here’s what that might mean for your private data. By Andrea González-Ramírez