The Best of The Cut

To write the Sex Diaries column every week, I stop people on the bus, ask my cashier at CVS, or even beg my next-door neighbors.

The sneaky, maddening phenomenon of not being able to afford your life anymore.

If the self-help top-seller were written now, its lessons would look a lot different.

How one subreddit community is defining our beauty standards — and then striving for them at all costs.

The baffling disappearance — and even stranger reappearance — of Michelle Phan.

And now she’s Emmy nominated for Abbott Elementary. We popped in to visit the legend.

The next generation of fashion students are more eco-conscious than ever — but they still face an uphill battle.

The most talked-about college course in America isn’t about making money or saving the world. It’s about how to be truly happy. We took it for you.

«In psychology, this sense of not having enough time is known as “time famine.” The sense of having plenty of time is called “time affluence.”»

Confessions from inside the algorithm.

Notes on the people ruining vacations, golden lattes, and wide-leg pants everywhere.

Throughout the 2010s, she demonstrably shifted American culture, changing the way we understand fame and the internet.

She’s cutting loose!

I love them so much. Just don’t tell them I said that.

Ultimately, it all comes down to who you want to be professionally.

When my younger child recently woke up barfing, I tried to figure out if she had RSV, flu, COVID, hand, foot, and mouth disease, or yet another thing.

Transforming family life into something people want to buy is harder than it looks.

Setting healthy boundaries shouldn’t be synonymous with quitting.

Shared by 55, including Carl Morris, Liam Bright, Christina Sommers

Most people are waiting for someone else to break through the quiet.

Research in neuroscience shows a solid link between aerobic exercise and cognitive clarity.

It's not about suspense; it's about survival.

When does a model own her own image?

Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.

When a woman dares respond to it, she’s seen as “disruptive.”