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home By Chinea Rodriguez What You Need to Host, According to Hostesses From the right playlist to the best glassware.

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2024 election The Power of Women’s Abortion and IVF Stories at the DNC The convention’s unapologetic focus on the issue would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. By Andrea González-Ramírez
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2024 election How ‘Republicans Are Weird’ Caught Fire Two weeks ago, Tim Walz introduced the perfect political insult. Now everyone’s laughing at a GOP that can’t laugh at itself. By Claire Lampen

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career Svitlana Bevza founded her namesake fashion label in 2006 out of a small atelier in Kyiv. She made her New York Fashion Week debut in 2019; by 2023, she’d scored a coveted invite to the Met Gala from Balenciaga’s Demna. Behind the scenes, the designer has been navigating the war in Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022. Here’s how she gets it done.

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sex diaries The 24-Year-Old Whose Boyfriend Wears a Dog Collar in Bed This week’s Sex Diary. By Alyssa Shelasky

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esther calling ‘My Partner Wants Children, But I Don’t. Now What?’ This week’s “Esther Calling” caller is anxious about future and needs advice about how to discuss this openly with his partner. By Esther Perel

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chapters My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired. How failure changed my relationship to work. By Samhita Mukhopadhyay
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olympics 2024 For 120 Million, 13 Reasons to Hope The Refugee Olympic Team wants more than just medals. At the Paris Games, the group’s female athletes hope to remind us of what refugees can achieve. By Claire Lampen
culture Move Over, Glen Powell The storm chaser behind the New York Metro Weather account is hotter than a heat wave. By Danya Issawi
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