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‘Love Island’ Fans Are Awful
The contestants are young, dumb, and unbelievably hot. Yet spectators demand that none of them ever, ever made a teenage mistake on the internet.
Kara Kennedy
Arthur Brooks: Why Cheaters Make Bad Politicians
Allegations surrounding politicians like Graham Platner raise a question: Does sexual misconduct predict how candidates will behave in office…
Arthur Brooks
The Show Millennial Moms Can’t Stop Watching
‘Off Campus’ is about college kids hooking up and falling out—so why can’t happily married fortysomethings stop watching?
Dana Schuster
The Ideologues Are Wrong About ‘Obsession’
Feminists think the horror film is about the toxicity of the Nice Guy; the manosphere argues that it proves women are crazy. But it’s much deeper and…
Kat Rosenfield
Tough Love: My Husband Hates Our Life
A mom of two’s partner spends ‘all day and night’ crying in the woods. But she doesn’t want to subject the kids to a divorce. Our advice columnist…
Abigail Shrier
Tough Love: Will I Get Canceled for Dating a Freshman?
A 22-year-old wants to ask out his 18-year-old classmate but fears campus backlash: ‘They’d label it predatory, and I’d be staring down the barrel of…
Abigail Shrier
Belle Burden’s Fans Don’t Care If She Lied
A New York socialite wrote a memoir about the collapse of her marriage, but seems to have exaggerated her financial woes. Her fans support her anyway.
Kat Rosenfield
Eat Thy Neighbor’s Sourdough
I went deep into the world of ‘cottage food.’ Plus: A conversation with Freya India about how the internet ruined girlhood—and if we can ever get it…
Suzy Weiss
When Sluts Settle Down
Alex Cooper’s überpopular podcast instructs women to sleep around. When she announced this week that she’s expecting a baby with her husband, people got…
Kara Kennedy
I Tried to Fall in Love with an AI Chatbot
I thought flirting with an AI chatbot would feel ridiculous. Instead, I found myself pulled into a relationship I knew wasn’t real.
Joanna Stern
Tough Love: Am I Too Young to Have a Baby?
A 24-year-old wife who’s still in med school is itching to start a family. ‘Am I crazy for not wanting to wait?’ she asks. Our advice columnist weighs…
Abigail Shrier
Did Someone Blow the Whistle on Motherhood?
Everyone is arguing about whether to have children. Almost no one is talking about what you get when you do.
Caitlin Flanagan
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