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Dakota Fanning Is Finally Letting Loose After her surprising turn in The Perfect Couple, she’s ready to reveal new sides of herself.

dont try this at home The Hand Job in Queer Is Too Short Do not try imitating the technique from Luca Guadagnino’s new movie. By Cat Zhang

astrology Your Daily Horoscope by Madame Clairevoyant: November 27, 2024 The sun and Mars give your confidence a boost today. Make the most of it by kicking long-stalled plans into motion. By Claire Comstock-Gay

style How the Thanksgiving Day Parade Costumes Come Together The Macy’s creative team answer all of your questions about the costumes featured and special floats. (Hint: There is a scented float.) By Hanna Flanagan

recommendations At Least We Have Netflix’s Insane New Christmas Movies Nothing says Thanksgiving like disassociating in front of a screen, anyway. By Allie Jones
black friday All of the Early Black Friday Deals Worth Shopping Bookmark these sales. By Bianca Nieves

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How to Dress Like Yourself at the Family Thanksgiving By Aemilia Madden
35 Best Early Black Friday Fashion Deals to Shop Now By Hanna Flanagan
43 Stocking Stuffers for Everyone on Your List By Chinea Rodriguez
20 Most Stylish Boots for Wide Calves By Chinea Rodriguez and Asia Milia Ware

style Every Red-Carpet Look From the Wicked Premieres, Ranked Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo have channeled their characters through their red-carpet looks for almost a year leading up to the film’s release. By Brooke LaMantia
obsessive tester 21 Best Mascaras for Volume and Length From brands including Maybelline, L’Oréal, Too Faced, and Ilia. By Hanna Flanagan

black friday By Chinea Rodriguez Yep, You Can Start Shopping Black Friday Deals Now Dissociate and add to cart, my friends.

where did you get that? Where Veneda Carter Gets Her Vintage Shoe Collection Plus: where she gets her thermals and all the details of her new Timberland collaboration. By Chinea Rodriguez
beauty Why Is Everyone Putting Beef Tallow on Their Face? Tradwives love it, but so do beauty insiders. Here’s why tallow is trending in skin care and the pros and cons of applying it. By Jennifer G. Sullivan
style So Quince Is Now Selling … Caviar? Enjoy some bargain fish roe with your $50 cashmere sweater. By Chantal Fernandez

health People Are Rushing to the Doctor Before Trump 2.0 From getting their tubes tied to stocking up on hormones and the abortion pill. By Lindsay Gellman
politics How Will the Publishing Industry Respond to Trump 2.0? We asked editors and agents about whether we’ll see more dystopian fiction, more tell-all memoirs, or more escapism. By Emily Gould

2024 election By Andrea González-Ramírez What Happens Now That Trump Won? Project 2025, Explained. A transition plan for his second term would gut abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights and transform the government as we know it.

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career ‘Should I Give My Boss a Holiday Gift?’ Don’t do it! That and all your other questions about holiday gift-giving at work, answered. By Alison Green

power A World Without Men Time to revisit our story about the women of South Korea’s 4B movement. By Anna Louie Sussman

personal finance ‘Should I Make Big Purchases Now?’ How to prepare for the second Trump economy. By Charlotte Cowles

career Cece Meadows was ambitious from a young age. While in college, she started working as a bank teller, got promoted, and became a homeowner at the age of 21. “All of the things that my family hadn’t done I was doing,” says the Prados Beauty founder and CEO. An ovarian-cancer diagnosis later in her 20s ground all that progress to a halt.| Read more.

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parenting Are You a Cycle Breaker — or Just a Grown-up? Thanks to certain pop-psychological concepts, childhood is swallowing adulthood whole. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
power The Plight of Black Women in America Seeing Kamala Harris lose confirmed that the solidarity we work so hard to create may still abandon us. By Brittany Packnett Cunningham

first person By Alice Feiring Rodney Alcala Didn’t Kill Me. Forty Years Later, I Asked Him Why. Decades after escaping the “The Dating Game Killer,” I visited him in prison in search of an answer.

sex diaries The Nail Tech Who Talks About Sex Too Much at Work In this week’s story, a woman in an open relationship goes on her weekly date and tells her colleagues all about it the next day. By Alyssa Shelasky

astrology Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: November 24–30 On Monday night Mercury retrograde begins, muddling communication until mid-December, but a new moon in Sagittarius offers fresh opportunity. By Claire Comstock-Gay

astrology Welp, the Last Mercury Retrograde of 2024 Is Here And it’s going to be a doozy. Because things aren’t chaotic enough! By Aliza Kelly

keep it moving If your only encounter with roller derby is Drew Barrymore’s movie Whip It, you should know that the Gotham Roller Derby skaters are serious about their sport. “The only difference between me and a professional athlete is that I’m not getting paid — in another world, this would be our full-time job,” says Molly Reitman (roller-derby name: Goddamn Goddamn).

parenting It’s Family ‘Sex Scene’ Night When violent porn is everywhere, is there a case for serving up romantic counterprogramming to your teen boy? By Anya Kamenetz
astrology Welp, the Last Mercury Retrograde of 2024 Is Here And it’s going to be a doozy. Because things aren’t chaotic enough! By Aliza Kelly

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culture Fabiana Palladino Is a Diva-in-Training After years of supporting other artists, the R&B-pop singer and Lorde collaborator is workshopping on a persona of her own. By Cat Zhang

culture By E.J. Dickson I’m Going to Miss the Wicked Press Tour Will this be the last time we see Ariana Grande grab Cynthia Erivo’s finger for emotional support?

movies Emilia Pérez Has a Major Problem: Emilia Pérez Critics have praised Emilia Pérez, but its portrayal of a trans woman is a dated mix of patronizing and insulting. By Harron Walker

encounter The Hauntings of Tyler Henry A day among the dead with America’s favorite 28-year-old psychic medium. By Emily Gould

culture Which Wicked Act One Song Is Your Favorite? A definitive ranking by Wicked superfans. By Tom Smyth

celebrity birthdays Scarlett Johansson Says Turning 40 Is ‘So Liberating’ “You don’t care what anybody thinks.” By Katja Vujić
poetry I’m Obsessed With Amanda Gorman’s Wicked Poem More blockbusters should be commissioning original verse. By Olivia Craighead
celebrity Justin and Hailey Bieber Can’t Be Bothered by Divorce Rumors Apparently, unfounded claims about the health of their marriage are “just noise.” By Danielle Cohen

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fertility Embryos Out of Reach When a Nashville fertility clinic abruptly closed its doors in April, patients demanded answers. Months later, they’re still waiting. By Rae Nudson
chapters My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired. How failure changed my relationship to work. By Samhita Mukhopadhyay
keep it moving The Angel Reese-Caitlin Clark Drama Is Only The Beginning Is this what “growing the game” looks like? What the media frenzy says about the WNBA now. By Emma Carmichael
power A World Without Men The women of South Korea’s 4B movement aren’t fighting the patriarchy — they’re leaving it behind entirely. By Anna Louie Sussman
encounter The Hauntings of Tyler Henry A day among the dead with America’s favorite 28-year-old psychic medium. By Emily Gould
2024 election ‘The Best I Can Do Is Cancel Out His Vote’ Four women voting for Kamala Harris explain how they deal with being married to a Donald Trump supporter. By Andrea González-Ramírez
first person Rodney Alcala Didn’t Kill Me. Forty Years Later, I Asked Him Why. Decades after escaping the “The Dating Game Killer” — the man depicted in Woman of the Hour — I visited him in prison in search of an answer. By Alice Feiring
scene report The Timothée Chalamet Lookalike Contest Was Absolute Chaos After thousands showed up to Washington Square Park, it took all I had to avoid getting trampled. By E.J. Dickson
2024 election What Is Usha Vance Thinking? The veep candidate’s wife is the child of immigrants, a former Democrat, a highly skilled lawyer — and a total mystery. By Irin Carmon
sex diaries The 69 Best Sex Diaries of All Time These are the diaries that blew up our group texts, inspired an internet conspiracy or two, and still make us blush all these years later. By the Cut
2024 election Does Kamala Harris’s Glock Actually Appeal to Gun Owners? How women feel about her viral comments. By Emily Shugerman
books The Grandparents Fighting Against Book Bans Advocacy groups like Grandparents for Truth want to lead the anti-book-censorship movement in the United States. By Huda Hassan