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Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of June 30–July 6

Neptune, planet of dreams and illusion, goes retrograde, while communication planet Mercury moves into warm and confident Leo. By Claire Comstock-Gay

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Jodie Turner-Smith Takes Control After a very public relationship and split, the actress is renegotiating how much of herself to share.

wait what is happening on tiktok? Exposing Cheaters Isn’t Always a Flex How would you feel if a stranger put your relationship on blast? By Angelina Chapin
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The Best Seamless and No-Show Underwear for Summer By Chinea Rodriguez
The Biggest Mistake You’re Making With SPF Moisturizer By Katie Heaney and Bianca Nieves
Read Every Single Smut Book We Featured This Week By Brooke LaMantia
15 Pairs of Denim Shorts to Wear All Summer By Chinea Rodriguez

encounter She Knows What the Birkin Set Want to Buy Hermès designer Nadège Vanhée has quietly helped the company avoid the luxury market slump. By Chantal Fernandez
everything-core In Defense of Calling Everything an Aesthetic Constantly naming new trends — Coastal grandma! Clowncore! Mob wife! — is an annoying verbal tic. Or is it a better way of understanding the world? By Erin Schwartz

beauty By Valerie Monroe ‘Help! My Under-eye Makeup Is Peeling Off! Layering products with different formulas can cause that. Here’s what to use instead — and how to apply. (Hint: Use your finger!)

trends The Summer’s Hottest Bag Matches Your Crocs These giant rubbery monstrosities that can comfortably fit a Stanley tumbler and half your fridge are coming to a pool near you. By Lindsay Gellman
now trending Bubble Hems: Ranking the Biggest, Roundest, and Puffiest According to how likely they are to pop. By Laura Pitcher
beauty Perfumes Give Me Headaches, But I Want to Smell Good. Help! It’s impossible to predict how anyone will react to a fragrance, but these perfumes are generally well tolerated by most people. By Jennifer G. Sullivan

life after roe 78 Patients and 10 Hours Inside an Abortion Clinic in the South “There’s a zombie-apocalypse mind-set in this building: We are going to survive.” By Andrea González-Ramírez
crime What We Know About the Trial of Karen Read Prosecutors say she drunkenly hit her boyfriend with a car. Her defense has accused police of a massive cover-up. By Claire Lampen

crime By Kelly Weill How One Mom Went from Astrology to Conspiracy Theories and Murder-Suicide Danielle Johnson sought wellness and found conspiracy theories.

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career ‘I Can’t Keep Up at Work’ Alison Green responds to two readers: one who feels like the weakest link on her team and another who doesn’t but is treated as though she is. By Alison Green

2024 election Panic! At the Debate Trump lied unchecked, but Biden was in such stunningly poor form that it will haunt him the rest of the election. By Laura Bassett

personal finance ‘What I Did With My Personal-Injury Settlement’ Three people on how the money affected their lives. By Charlotte Cowles

career Before becoming executive director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, the only institution in the world dedicated to fostering LGBTQ+ art, Alyssa Nitchun sold women’s lingerie, DJ’d, fundraised for CUNY’s Center for LGBTQ Studies, and assisted Artforum’s publisher. The common thread: Doing what she loves. Here’s how she gets it done.

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parenting Summer Child Care Is a Special Kind of Hell Thoughts and prayers to any parents who didn’t make camp plans in February. Also the parents who did. By Amil Niazi
chapters My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired. How failure changed my relationship to work. By Samhita Mukhopadhyay

family By Anya Kamenetz What Day-care Workers and Preschool Teachers Really Think About Their Jobs Six women get candid on dwindling enrollment, priced-out parents, and crying kids.

dreaming How to Interpret Dreams About Practically Anyone From exes to co-workers to celebrities, here’s a guide. By Candice Jalili, Gretty Garcia, and Katja Vujić

relationships A Summer Without Sex Celibacy is all the rage right now. By Kelsey Osgood

esther calling ‘Why Can’t I Stop Cheating?’ Every marriage for this week’s “Esther Calling” caller has ended with infidelity. Now, in a relationship, she’s scared of history repeating itself. By Esther Perel

the bigger picture When she launched Girls Run NYC in 2014, Jessie Zapo wanted to make it easier for women of all abilities to run “in fellowship with others”: “Our goal was to create a space where it didn’t feel scary, and you weren’t going to get left behind in the dust.” Now Girls Run NYC isn’t just a running club. For many of its members, it’s a support group.

parenting Why Do Parents Obsess Over Kids’ Athletics? Being a committed Sports Parent™ is a path toward absolution of any guilt. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
family The Last Thing My Mother Wanted Healthy at age 74, she decided there was nothing on earth still keeping her here, not even us. By Evelyn Jouvenet

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culture Martine’s Latest Performance? Hollywood Actor. In a meta turn, the shape-shifting artist is playing one on HBO’s Fantasmas. By Harron Walker
scene report Bitches in Drag Meet LGBTQ+ icons Dogatella Versace, Chappell Ralph, and the other canine queens and kings of Singers’ inaugural doggy drag show. By Cat Zhang

love these days By the Cut 25 Best Romantic Comedies to Watch Now From To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before to Love Actually.

music Are We Getting ‘Nasty’ This Summer? Tinashe enters the song of summer competition with her viral new single. By Cat Zhang

culture We’re Getting Women’s Ambition All Wrong From Jennifer Lopez to Harrison Butker, the “Is ambition feminist?” debate rages on — and it’s exhausting. By Jennifer Romolini

royals When Will Kate Middleton Return to Public Life? Her treatment is reportedly going well, but sources say she “may never come back in the role that people saw her in before.” By Danielle Cohen

hot shot Lauren Sanchez, Where Is Your Life Jacket?! You know the rules: safety first, fashion second. By Danya Issawi
bachelor nation Rachel Lindsay Found Out She Was Getting Divorced Via Text The Bachelorette star learned that Bryan Abasolo had filed for divorce the same day everyone else did. By Olivia Craighead
as told to How Queer Nightlife Workers Spend Pride Month “There’s a trade-off between getting to enjoy Pride and wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to have as much exposure as possible.” By Brooke LaMantia

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parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
cut covers Normani, On Her Own Time Five years after “Motivation,” her debut album Dopamine is finally here. Normani explains the wait. By Connor Garel
family Why Did These YouTubers Give Away Their Son? Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last. By Caitlin Moscatello
cut covers No One Sounds Like Tems The Nigerian singer-songwriter mesmerized music’s biggest names with a handful of songs. That was just the beginning. By Connor Garel
power She Blew Up Her Life to Reform the Fashion Industry In the success of the Adult Survivors Act, model turned activist Sara Ziff finds a silver lining. By Emily Shugerman
internet drama Dancing in the Name of the Lord The “cult” claims about a TikTok-famous set of performers shocked everyone — except L.A.’s dancefluencer community. By Gabrielle Bluestone
parenting The Last Kid in Ninth Grade Without an iPhone They’re not in the group chat. But they’re not social pariahs either. By Liz Krieger
aging Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis As we enter our 40s, we’re being forced to confront something awful — not our mortality. Our finances. By Amil Niazi
fashion Why Does Every Nice Dress Cost $500 Now? No, you’re not imagining things. Here’s why every summer dress you find is so expensive (or Shein cheap). By Chantal Fernandez
scene report I Waited 3.5 Hours for a Something About Her Sandwich. Was It Worth It? Surviving opening day at the newest Vanderpump Rules restaurant — and grading every sandwich on a scale of zero to five goat-cheese balls. By Katie Heaney
men Inside the Penis-Filler Boom Some Girthmasters are made, not born. By David Mack
relationships Where Have All My Guy Friends Gone? As we get older and couple off, it feels harder and harder for men and women to remain platonically close. But what if we made it easier? By Sarah Wheeler