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  1. millennials
    Outsourcing AdulthoodCan you ever really grow up if you don’t do anything for yourself?
  2. marriage: an investigation
    Close Reading Three Very Different Celebrity MarriagesWhat Billy Bob and Angelina, Mary Kate and Sarkozy, and Mike and Karen Pence can teach us about marriage.
  3. advice
    Why We’ll Never Get Rid of Our Money AnxietiesBut here’s how to manage the worst of them.
  4. unconventional wisdom
    What If Office-Holiday-Party Hookups Are Actually Great?Forget the conventional wisdom. Here’s a couple whose sloppy office hookup ended in marriage.
  5. beat around the bush
    The Bush ReportWhat’s going on with pubes these days?
  6. politics
    Stop LyingAn earnest plea for honesty.
  7. fixations
    I Think About This a Lot: The Beauty Habits of This Possible Cult LeaderTeal Swan is a controversial self-made guru who calls herself “the spiritual catalyst” — but what I can’t stop thinking about are her pores.
  8. crime
    Anna Delvey Wants to Make a Plea DealThe scammer wore her Céline glasses to court.
  9. crime
    The Courthouse Scene at Harvey Weinstein’s ArraignmentHe was quiet but apparently undaunted.
  10. your shopping cart
    Guest Strategist Haul: What Maureen O’Connor Bought in May“Can you believe I used to want my skin to resemble velvet? How humiliating. Now I’m back to the liquid version. So dewy.”
  11. trust me i should know
    The Non-Smelly Mosquito Repellents I Use to Prevent Quasimodo-like ReactionsBecause even if I get ER-level allergic reactions, I refuse to spend my life smelling like a citronella candle.
  12. crime
    Sentenced to Life in Prison, the Nanny Sobs (for Herself)The parents and judge excoriated a “remorseless” killer.
  13. crime
    The Jury and the Family Speak Out As the Nanny Trial Ends“These jurors went through hell.”
  14. crime
    The Jury Is Out at the Nanny Murder TrialJurors heard closing statements before the final verdict.
  15. crime
    As Nanny Murder Trial Ends, a Push for a New LawLulu and Leo’s Law would protect families from fraudulent nannies.
  16. crime
    Video Shows Nanny in Murder Trial Denying HallucinationsForensic psychiatrists disagree on whether Yoselyn Ortega was capable of psychosis and dissociation.
  17. crime
    The Other Family at the Nanny TrialWhat happens when someone you love kills two children.
  18. crime
    A Crucial Question at the Nanny Trial: Is She Faking Her Hallucinations?The court tries to figure out whether Yoselyn Ortega really heard the Devil.
  19. crime
    What’s Left to Learn From the Horror of the Nanny Trial?Today, the court heard how Yoselyn Ortega turned the knife on herself.
  20. crime
    Nanny’s Sister Describes Phone Call: ‘It Was Not Her, It Was a Demon’She asked why the Krims didn’t stop Yoselyn Ortega, prompting gasps in the courtroom.
  21. crime
    The Nanny Murder Trial Is Impossible to Watch and Impossible to Look Away FromThe brutal story has tapped into a host of New York anxieties.
  22. crime
    For the First Time, the Nanny Cries at her Murder TrialShe broke down amid the testimony of a psychiatrist who treated her after the crime.
  23. crime
    Nanny Murder Trial: A Father Describes the Day His Children DiedHe was on a flight back from California, and landed to find a flood of messages.
  24. crime
    A Therapist Who Saw the Nanny Just Before the Murders TestifiesShe complained of anxiety, a racing heart, and financial stress.
  25. crime
    The Nanny Trial in Photos: Violence, Horror, and FamilyFrom crime-scene photos to mommy blogging, the case in images.
  26. crime
    First Responders Tell the Court What They Saw on the Day of the Nanny Murders“Whatever is behind that door is pure evil.”
  27. crime
    ‘You’re Evil and You’re Getting Pleasure From This’: Nanny Trial TestimonyMarina Krim finished her testimony at her former nanny’s murder trial with an outpouring.
  28. crime
    The First Day of the Nanny Murder Trial Sets the Tone for What’s to ComeHorrifying details, and tangled New York lives.
  29. power
    If We Can’t Talk About Sex, We Can’t Stop Sexual AbusePervs count on the rest of us being prudes, and it’s easier to look away, so we do.
  30. culture
    The Joy of Reading Miss Manners in 2017It’s an escapist fantasy — but also a quiet study in ethics.
  31. weird things we love
    The Shapeless Denim Romper Is Summer’s Most Practical OutfitIt stores everything in a jolie-laide way. Plus: nine others I love.
  32. select all
    The World’s Most Expensive Webcam Girl on How to Get Rich From PornMaîtresse Madeline Marlowe can make $1,000 in a minute.
  33. sex lives
    Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our TimeThe streaming sex empire may have done more to expand the sexual dreamscape than Helen Gurley Brown, Masters and Johnson, or Sigmund Freud.
  34. let’s talk about sex
    The ‘It’ Girl Who Became a Baby-Naming ExpertLinda Rosenkrantz on life after Talk.
  35. let’s talk about sex
    The Day Your Baby Calls Your Boyfriend ‘Daddy’When does a single mom stop being single?
  36. Here’s the Homework a Sex Coach Gives Her ClientsMyisha Battle teaches women how to squirt.
  37. books
    The Fabulous Agony of the Crazy Rich Asians TrilogyRich People Problems is a book about wealth PTSD.
  38. Everything You Never Asked About Harry Potter EroticaA guided tour from the hosts of Potterotica.
  39. let’s talk about sex
    Dan Savage Lost His Virginity in a Cosplay Threeway“It was hilarious” and a little bit heartbreaking.
  40. alt-right
    Cuckolding’s Wild Journey From Porn to the West WingHow “cuck” explains the neurotically masculinist world of the alt-right.
  41. the new far right
    The Philosophical Fascists of the Gay Alt-RightAmong the priests of the “religion” of masculinity.
  42. Why Wallflowers Don’t Make FriendsLocation is everything when you’re trying to meet people.
  43. Now Introducing: The Finnish Sport of Wife-CarryingLike Tough Mudder, but with a woman on your back.
  44. nostalgia
    Remember When Popularity Was Cool? Now It’s Work.Social media ruined everything.
  45. sex lives podcast
    The Worst Way to Clean Up After SexA harrowing story involving Lysol and a penis.
  46. sex lives podcast
    Botox for Buttholes: Yes, It’s a ThingAnal rejuvenation is a new niche in colorectal medicine.
  47. sex lives podcast
    Is It Okay to Take an Uber While Giving Birth?One woman’s harrowing story.
  48. Looking for Love in Seven Different CitiesJada Yuan tells Sex Lives about her Tinder tour of America.
  49. let’s talk about sex
    ‘Hi, I’m Internet Famous for Having Herpes’Meet Ella Dawson, the internet’s foremost herpes essayist.
  50. marriage
    The Best Thing About This Book Is the Writer’s WifeStephen Marche’s new memoir, The Unmade Bed, is fascinatingly messy.
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