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Suzy Weiss: The Internet Ruined Their Lives. Now, They’re Back.
What does life look like after cancellation? James Frey and Lee Tilghman on public shame, letting go, and leaning into being outsiders.
Suzy Weiss
She Was the OG Health Influencer. Then the Internet Swallowed Her.
Lee Tilghman talks to Suzy Weiss about being a trailblazer for today’s social media economy—and the scandal that took it all away.
Suzy Weiss
1HR 17M
Bari’s Picks of the Week: Hidden Figures
The race to make designer babies. The Democratic financier turned MAGA moneyman. Why Amanda Knox forgave her prosecutor. Taylor Swift. And more.
Bari Weiss
Marry a Woman Smarter Than You
The straight male case for Taylor Swift.
Will Rahn
You Can Buy This Sweater. Unless You’re a ‘Proud Zionist.’
Lingua Franca built a brand selling luxury ‘resistance.’ But when a customer ordered a cashmere pro-Israel sweater, the company decided that some causes…
Maya Sulkin
The Presidential Fitness Test Was Humbling. I’m Glad It’s Back.
It’s good to teach kids that if you work hard, you can get stronger.
Kat Rosenfield
Coleman Hughes: Candace Owens, Brigitte Macron, and Our Age of Conspiracy
I watched the podcaster’s eight-hour series on the French first lady. It’s a fascinating window into a mind gripped by extreme apophenia: the tendency…
Coleman Hughes
David Mamet: Back When We Gave a Fuck
Profanity was once a useful weapon. Now it’s a dull blade.
David Mamet
The Bride of ‘Chinese Frankenstein’—and the Race to Make Designer Babies
I’ve spent hours talking to the ‘Chinese Frankenstein’ who says he’s opening a lab in Austin. His competition, in his quest to pioneer gene editing in…
Johanna Berkman
Ancient Wisdom: The World Says ‘Quit,’ But I’m Not Done Yet
For 50 years, I’ve been getting up five mornings a week eager to get to work. At 74, I still feel that way.
Anthony Giardina
Anthony Giardina Just Won’t Quit
The novelist on his writing routine, the fall of the straight white male artist, and what he remembers from Woodstock.
Suzy Weiss
41M
Suzy Weiss: Living in Gwyneth’s World
Plus: The New York Post comes to the left coast, Greg Gutfeld and Jimmy Fallon make a surprisingly civil late night TV appearance, and the buzziest body…
Suzy Weiss
‘Together’ Is a Scary Proposition
The hottest new body horror movie explores millennials’ deepest fear: intimacy
Kat Rosenfield
WATCH: Jonathan Mahler and Peter Savodnik on ‘The Gods of New York’
Four wild years in the 1980s completely remade NYC—and set the stage for Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric rise.
Peter Savodnik
43M
The Best Night of My Life Was a Free Press Party
And I don’t care if you judge me.
Maya Sulkin
Social Media Shortens Your Life. Here’s How to Get Time Back.
The apps are designed like casinos: endless, curvilinear paths that can be perpetually navigated on autopilot. The key is to find right-angle turns.
Gurwinder Bhogal
What If You Replaced Yourself with AI for the Summer?
Dave Rubin made an AI clone of himself to take over his show while he’s out of town. He’s betting that what people love about him is replicable. I’m not…
River Page
Trump’s Big, Beautiful Ballroom
D.C. used to be the city of happy hours in the Marriott Marquis. But now, and I hate to admit it, the capital is becoming fun.
Suzy Weiss
Ancient Wisdom: My Second Act Gave Me a Second Life
When an editor called to ask if I could have lunch with Claire Danes for a story, I declined. I’m a teacher now, I said.
Peter Richmond
The Case for Dating Abundance
Incels hate women, ‘heterofatalists’ hate men. What if everyone chilled out?
Suzy Weiss
Welcome to the Emotional Labor Camp
Millennial women are complaining that their boyfriends talk too much about their feelings. It’s called ‘mankeeping.’
Kat Rosenfield
Reviewing Men? There’s an App for That.
Straight women are using America’s most-downloaded dating app to anonymously critique potential partners. Men have reacted by publicly humiliating…
River Page
She Was Murdered in Midtown Manhattan. The Internet Celebrated It.
Wesley LePatner was a mother, a wife, and a beloved boss. But to a growing number of people, she was a symbol of everything they hate.
Maya Sulkin
Why Sydney Sweeney’s Body Is Causing a Total Meltdown
For a few short years, ads had to buy in to the fiction that anyone can be beautiful. Now, the vibe shift is here, and it’s hot, blonde, and sprawled…
Kara Kennedy
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