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Why My Generation Is Bad at Partying
An invite app made it easier to throw parties. It also made them worse.
July 22, 2025
Sascha Seinfeld
The Coldplay Couple Did Something Bad. The Internet Did Something Worse.
The original function of public shaming was to keep the bonds of community strong. Now, it’s a spectator sport.
July 20, 2025
Kat Rosenfield
Should Your Husband Tie Your Shoes?
There’s a social media trend where women boast about their boyfriends tying their shoelaces for them. People are saying it’s dangerously unfeminist. I…
July 16, 2025
Kat Rosenfield
Nobody Has a Personality Anymore
My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder. You’re not shy, you’re autistic. You’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD.
July 15, 2025
Freya India
What ‘Love Island’ Gets Right About Dating
In an age of romantic apathy, ‘Love Island’ succeeds where modern dating fails.
July 9, 2025
Sascha Seinfeld
Radical Honesty Has Come for the Boob Job
In the era of destigmatizing everything, perhaps the only thing wrong with a $200,000 facelift is not acknowledging your privilege in being able to get…
July 7, 2025
Kat Rosenfield
She Lost Her Husband. I Lost My Wife. Now We’re a Couple.
Love’s more complicated the second time around. The sweetness doesn’t erase the sorrow. The feelings coexist. We have each lost the love of our life…
July 6, 2025
Marty Goldensohn
Marty Goldensohn on Finding Late-in-Life Romance
‘It turns out that a key to aging is learning to live in a future that you did not see coming.’
July 6, 2025
Suzy Weiss
27M
Coleman Hughes: I Just Did Therapy in Public
I played a self-knowledge game with happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks. It forced me to ask: What do I worship?
July 3, 2025
Coleman Hughes
I’m Finally Hanging My American Flag
Growing up, I was taught to dislike the American flag and all that it represented. This year, for the first time, I hung one outside my house.
July 3, 2025
Larissa Phillips
Was She the Greatest Kingmaker of the 20th Century?
Or will Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law only be remembered for sex? Tina Brown on the seductive Pamela Harriman.
June 30, 2025
Tina Brown
You Don’t Need the Same Politics to Surf Together
My brother-in-law is a truck-driving, Rogan-listening Covid skeptic. I was a speechwriter for Obama. I assumed we’d never be friends. I was wrong.
June 30, 2025
David Litt
The Secret of Good Grandparenting
Let your children be the parents they want to be, not the parents you want them to be.
June 29, 2025
Julie Rose
Suzy Weiss: Admit It, Being an Adult Is Hard
I’m about to turn 30, so I went to an ‘adulting’ class. Plus: Dating apps were never a good idea.
June 28, 2025
Suzy Weiss
Virginity Is the Last Taboo
A secret? A prize? A burden? A social construct? I asked a dozen women who didn’t have sex until later in life: What does ‘virginity’ mean to you?
June 28, 2025
Kat Rosenfield
My Husband Wants to Be Cremated. I’d Ignore His Dying Wish.
‘The Mortician,’ HBO’s horrifying docuseries about a sociopathic undertaker, is proof that my family is right: Sitting up with a corpse is the best way…
June 23, 2025
River Page
Suzy Weiss: If Kamala Harris Were President. . .
Plus: A musical that imagines Anne Frank as pansexual and Latinx. No, really.
June 21, 2025
Suzy Weiss
Can Any Woman Resist a Rich Husband?
After four waves of feminism, everyone’s too embarrassed to admit that it feels good to marry a provider. Everyone except the makers of the film…
June 17, 2025
Kat Rosenfield
Suzy Weiss: How Disney Girls Grow Up
Plus: How much sex is too much sex? Bob Dylan does something very weird. And a new memoir about celibacy.
June 14, 2025
Suzy Weiss
The Surprising Pleasures of Widowhood
After my husband of 34 years died of dementia, my first emotion was ‘grie-lief.’ The next 15 years were better than I could have imagined.
June 8, 2025
Elinor Lipman
Elinor Lipman on Learning to Enjoy Widowhood
The novelist talks about her late husband, her current “husband-like friend,” and how to cope with widowhood.
June 7, 2025
Suzy Weiss
25M
What Porn Took from Us
My generation grew up with unlimited access to hardcore porn. No wonder intimacy is a struggle.
June 5, 2025
Freya India
The Straight-Male Case for ‘Sex and the City’
I couldn’t help but wonder: Is Carrie Bradshaw the answer to the male-loneliness epidemic?
May 30, 2025
Will Rahn
How to Examine Your Marriage and Your Life
Agnes Callard talks to Bari about marriage, divorce, kids, and living with her current and ex-husband.
May 27, 2025
Bari Weiss
1HR 9M
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