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Levi’s Is Offering Up to 40 Percent Off Everything Sitewide By Hanna Flanagan
YSL Beauty Made Me Fall in Love With Blush Again By Carol Lee
Zac Posen Has Perfected the Denim Jacket By Shelby Ying Hyde
The Best of Ulta’s 21 Days of Beauty Deals By Chinea Rodriguez

style My Quest for a Nightgown I Can Wear Beyond My Bed Nighties are the defining dress of the summer. But what if “sleepy” isn’t how I want my style described? By Emma Childs
ask a beauty editor Hailey Bieber Swears by Lymphatic-Drainage Massages. Should I Try It? The massage is supposed to reduce puffiness, especially on parts of the body that feel bloated. Does it work? By April Long
gone sale-ing All the Early Labor Day Deals Cut Editors Are Shopping From Ulta, Nordstrom, Abercrombie, and more. By Chinea Rodriguez

good scents By April Long Is This the Longest-Lasting Fragrance Ever Made? Dior perfumer Francis Kurkdjian pushed the woody notes to the absolute limit.

k-beauty What Is Olive Young Festa? Our Korean beauty writer spent over five hours at the K-beauty festival — these are the eight best products she discovered. By Carol Lee
hot take Deliver Us From Taffeta My plea to break free from sweatphobic fashion trends and return to practicality. By Emma Childs
why is your skin so good How Shay Mitchell Gets Her Skin So Good The actress and founder is obsessed with K-beauty, and while some may call it excessive, she enjoys relishing in products in the name of self-care. By Asia Milia Ware

parenting What Parents Really Want? Free Babysitting. Zohran Mamdani’s first Parents’ Night Out was a hit. By Erica Schwiegershausen
crime The Porn Addicts Who Tried to Rescue the Camgirls How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent webcam pimp. podcast By Ezra Marcus

power By Andrea González-Ramírez Breaking Down the Good Good Golf Commercial Drama The media brand is now threatening to sue Callaway after both companies released a controversial ad depicting violence against women.

ask a boss ‘I’m Quitting My Job. How Do I Tell My Boss?’ Resignations are often uncomfortable, but remember: This is a normal part of doing business. By Alison Green

action item How to Help Victims of the Flash Floods in Nepal and Tibet At least 270 people are dead and hundreds are still missing after floodwaters swept through the Nepal-Tibet border. By Kathleen Walsh

personal finance ‘Two Decades Later, I’m a Single Mom Again’ In the ’90s, I became a single parent. Now, I’m back in the same position — and it’s much harder this time around. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done It was only a matter of time before Morgan Stewart McGraw started a podcast. Ever since she hit television screens in 2014, she has charmed audiences with her honesty and her enviable lifestyle. In March, the Renggli founder and mom of two launched her new video-podcast show, on which she has interviewed Lisa Rinna and Tinx. Here’s how she gets it done.

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personals Both Sides of a First Date: Were His Girl Friends a Deal-breaker? Cameron is a political staffer. Ray is a doctor-in-training. Their conversation covered ground we could never have predicted. By Emily Leibert
advice ‘My Friends Are Always Trying to Diagnose Me With Something!’ Regardless of whether you’re neurodivergent, these people are being annoying. By Amy Rose Spiegel

astrology By Aliza Kelly This Astrological Aspect Is Bringing You Luck and Productivity The Jupiter-Saturn trine is exactly the kind of energy we need right now.

sex diaries The Woman Sending Nudes From Her Parents’ House In this week’s story, a 22-year-old living at home sexts a guy she rarely sees. By Alyssa Shelasky

parenting What Does ‘Dad Style’ Even Mean Now? For the fathers who are “really into fashion,” their outfits say more about how they parent than anything else. By Jason Diamond

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes: August 30–September 5 This week’s waning moon offers an apt opportunity for reflection. By Claire Comstock-Gay

self The Best Mommy Makeover Money Can Buy: After Allison Ellsworth gave birth to her third child, she lost 60 pounds. “But even though I was working out nonstop, I still had all this extra skin and a huge pooch,” she says. One of her friends had recently gotten a tummy tuck, and another was doing a consult with “The Mommy Makeover Guy.”

family Whose Babies Are These? A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry. By Emi Nietfeld
ask tefi ‘My Friends Think I Come Off “Scary” to Men’ The only way to be less “intimidating” is to … actually no, get scarier. By Tefi Pessoa

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tv Adults Finds Its Sweet Spot The second season of a sitcom about a group of codependent friends is sharper, funnier, and weirder in the best way. Why haven’t you started watching? By Michel Ghanem
in memoriam Thank God for Dolly Parton’s Boobs Growing up, Dolly Parton’s unabashed femininity helped me define and embrace my own. By Xochitl Gonzalez

scene report By Brooke LaMantia I Nearly Melted at Daisy Chain Fields — and I’d Do It Again Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural all-women festival raised $20 million and brought wholesome vibes to Orange County.

tributes Celebrities Remember Dolly Parton The Queen of Country died at 80 this week. By Emily Leibert

royals So What Exactly Did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Accomplish in America? The royalish couple got up to a lot over the past six years, for better or worse.

books How Much Natalie Portman Gossip Is Actually in Life of M? Rachel Cusk’s new book has some very pointed references. By Olivia Craighead

celebrity Why Hasn’t Gal Gadot Gotten a Tom Cruise Coconut Cake? She had never even heard of the cake until now, despite working with Cruise in 2010. By Kathleen Walsh
rebrand alert What Happened to Miley Cyrus’s Last Name? She’s just being Miley. By Kathleen Walsh
culture Lionel Richie Is in the ICU Doctors are looking into “slight dehydration” and hope to discharge him on Tuesday. By Kathleen Walsh

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first person Losing My Friend Over Wegovy She hid her semaglutide use, knowing that I would spiral. She was right; we haven’t spoken since. By Sophia Ortega
self Sex As a Single Mom by Emily Ratajkowski After my marriage ended, I began compulsively dating in order to figure out what kind of woman I wanted to be. By Emily Ratajkowski
health They Thought It Was Burnout or Aging. It Was ADHD. A wave of midlife diagnoses in women is revealing the disorder’s hormonal link. By Caitlin Moscatello
relationships The $1.75 Million Betrayal What do you do when your friend steals your husband and posts about it for her 3 million followers? Akira Montague went scorched earth. By Angelina Chapin
first person Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group I thought I found my village. Instead, I was back in high school. By Ashley French
first person Should We All Start Smoking Cigarettes Again? We quit our bad habits for the sake of our future selves. How naïve of us. By Xochitl Gonzalez
beauty The Beauty Products Heated Rivalry Star Hudson Williams Uses to the Last Drop The Heated Rivalry star can’t get enough Skin1004 sunscreen, Beauty of Joseon serum, and an iRestore red-light helmet. By Carol Lee
self When Your Son Abuses Your Daughter Sibling sexual abuse forces parents to make an impossible choice: Do they forsake one child to protect the other? By Elizabeth Weil
chapters Lessons From My Me Too In 2017, I accused the Today show’s longest-serving anchor of sexual misconduct. I was no one’s perfect victim. By Brooke Nevils
parenting ‘I Regret Having Children’ Three women who wish they had chosen differently. By Bindu Bansinath
relationships I Love My Husband (Who Hates Me) Nothing inspires rage like a woman who defends her partner’s bad behavior. By Bindu Bansinath
families What Broke the Beckhams? After his marriage to Nicola Peltz, the wayward Brooklyn Beckham disavowed his superstar family for his billionaire in-laws. He may never go back. By Bridget Read