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Is Therapy Tearing Us Apart?
Therapy promised Americans greater agency and insight. Instead, it delivered a more satisfying story about why someone else is to blame.
Jonathan Alpert
He Survived South Korea Skincare Hell
Plus: hanging out with Sergey Brin’s ‘MAGA girlfriend.’ Who was the worst-dressed at the Met Gala? And more!
Suzy Weiss
Nothing Can Sink the Cruise Ship
Thirty-eight million people went on a cruise last year. They’ll keep going—and that’s a good thing.
Jillian Lederman
EXCLUSIVE: Cannabis Giants Sued for Marketing Weed as Medicine
A new class-action lawsuit alleges three of America’s largest marijuana companies know that science doesn’t support their health claims—but keep saying…
Josh Code
How Perimenopause Became America’s New Health Scare
Influencers are selling lubricants. Gwyneth Paltrow is talking about hormone replacement therapy. Drug companies are paying for ghostwritten articles…
Kara Kennedy
A Town Hall with Ben Sasse
The former Nebraska senator, now battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer, shares his wishes for the country with '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley.
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Is Ibogaine the Next Miracle Drug?
American addicts and traumatized veterans are flocking to Mexico to ingest a powerful hallucinogen. But the president just signed an executive order…
Josh Code
Let the Kids Smoke
A new tobacco ban in Britain for anyone born after 2008 may make the next generation safer. So why do I feel like we’re losing something?
Kara Kennedy
Two Drinks with . . . Steak ’n Shake’s Chief MAHA Officer
Cracking open a 12-ounce Liquid Death, Michael Boes tells me he’s making fast food healthy again.
Tanner Nau
Lena Dunham’s Sickness Isn’t Romantic
Very online millennial women grew up glamorizing their ailments, posting about symptoms as if they were cute. But their high priestess Dunham proves the…
Kat Rosenfield
I Thought I Was Autistic. I Was Wrong.
After spending most of my life feeling different and alone, an autism diagnosis gave me the kind of relief that was impossible to resist. But it was…
Christina Buttons
Ancient Wisdom: How to Live to Be 103
For 86 years, Deborah Szekely has run one of the most famous health spas in the world, Rancho La Puerta. At the age of 103, she’s ready to tell the…
Deborah Szekely
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