The Never-Ending Girls Trip
How almost two decades of travel built my relationship with my best friend.
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Culture Excerpt from She Would Be King
A magical realism retelling of Liberia's founding.
Culture Resurrecting Leonora Carrington’s World
A pilgrimage to discover the inner workings of the last living Surrealist.
Politics Hijab in the Trump Era
On the complicated decision to wear — and remove — the headscarf.
Style You’ve Got Mail Is My Fall Style Inspiration
I’ve always thought it was embarrassing to imagine one’s life like a movie, but fall clothing has that effect.
Life Every Time There Is an Awkward Silence, a Queer Child Is Born
What it’s like working in childcare while trans.
Politics In the Running: Paulette Jordan
In a new series, we interview female candidates who are winning historic primary elections across the nation. For our first, Idaho’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate discusses her political race in her own words.
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Culture It’s OK, CHVRCHES Doesn’t Actually Believe Love Is Dead
Frontwoman Lauren Mayberry on learning to think outside the societal box.
Life Is Honesty Always the Best Policy with Friends?
A psychotherapist on the complicated nature of truth-telling among friends.
Work Read an Excerpt from How Not To Fall Apart
Remember this when you're losing your job.
Life These All-Girls Baseball Teams Are More Than Just Breaking Barriers
Two teams on what it takes to play a sport that has systematically and historically shut women out.
Culture Tirzah Will Heal Your Heart With Her Tender Love Tunes
The musician talks her new album Devotion.
Life Trading Places
What trading romantic partners with my ex taught me about true connections — in both friendship and love.
Culture Excerpt from Ordinary People
Marital crisis hits South London.
Life Dirty Bathwater, Bloody Blankets, and Appalling Conditions for Babies
What it was like to be a nurse and a woman of color in apartheid South Africa.
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