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A Sweatpants Pioneer on the Future of Fashion
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It’s Norma Kamali’s time to shine. Again.
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The Cut “I think if people in the industry started looking at this no man’s land that everyone’s stayed away from with a fresh eye, they’d see that there’s a lot of benefit to being in the middle,” says 58h
Women Are Texting Each Other One Word
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And the meaning is immediately clear.
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The Cut When the news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death first broke, one word and one word only rose to the minds of many 10d
We’re Already Running Out of Hurricane Names for 2020
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Meteorologists will soon have to switch to the Greek alphabet, which has only happened once before.
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The Cut If we see more than one additional storm this year, meteorologists will have to switch to Greek letters — which has happened only once before 11d
Trump Is Dying to Run Against a ‘Nasty Woman’ Again
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And he’s not wasting any time getting right down to it.
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The Cut “Trump is working to construct a narrative in which he is actually running against [Kamala] Harris, who he is positioning as the real presidential candidate. It’s a risk, because so far, Harris has proven to be a tough target for him,” writes 12d
Are These the Best TV Clothes Since Mad Men?
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All about the beautifully tailored looks of Lovecraft Country.
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The Cut These are the best TV clothes since #MadMen. And the secret, according to costume designer Dayna Pink, is tailoring 17d
We’re Getting Far Too Used to Living in Hell
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The dull horror of watch the world burn over social media.
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The Cut For years, scientists have predicted we’d face more severe fire seasons in hotter, drier conditions because of climate change. But what is somehow more terrifying than the escalation of these events is how quickly we seem to be adapting to them 19d
Some of Us Are Born This Way: Female Athletes and Testosterone Limits
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A top sports court has ruled that Caster Semenya would have to take hormone suppressants in order to “ensure fair competition in women’s sports.”
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The Cut Caster Semenya has lost her legal battle against track and field’s rules limiting female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels. “To rule in favor of artificially inhibiting her performance is the antithesis of sportsmanship,” writes a fellow Olympian 19d
Former Students Talk About Their Fake Black Professor
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“Now I’m just like … what else was a lie?”
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The Cut What Jessica Krug's former students think about her now 24d
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The Cut "There was this theme in her teaching of being super-representative of her communities and saying that folks had destroyed it and gentrified it. Now looking back, she was talking about herself." 24d
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The Cut "For her to also play the victim in that self-flagellating way and say, 'Okay, cancel me, I’m a culture leech' — that kind of thing is exactly the problem with white allyship to begin with, so it shows that she hasn’t learned anything from all of this" 24d
The Look Book Goes to the Jamaica Post Office
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On 164th Street, where we spoke to USPS workers, many of whom are working ten- and 12-hour daily shifts to keep up with demand.
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The Cut We spoke to USPS workers, many of whom are working ten- and 12-hour daily shifts to keep up with demand. “I’m out there delivering sofas, couches. In Jamaica Estates, some families have six kids and are getting 15 packages a day,” says Shatia Davis 40d
The Cut Returns With a New Weekly Podcast
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Listen to the trailer now.
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The Cut 🚨New podcast alert! Our weekly podcast will explore culture, style, sex, politics, and more, featuring an ensemble of voices engaged in the conversations that matter most in our current moment. Listen to the trailer here 53d
FKA Twigs Is Raising Pandemic Funds for Sex Workers
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“I feel like now is the time for me to step forward, pay respect, and shine a light.”
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The Cut "I feel like now is the time for me to step forward, pay respect, and shine a light on the challenges facing sex workers, especially during these uncertain times:" FKA twigs launched a pandemic fundraiser for sex workers 54d
How Professional Writers Deal With Rejection
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Seven writers talk about how they keep moving forward.
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The Cut .: “Being a writer is a lot of endless rejection forever. It’s almost like applying for a job or something, where you start to imagine your whole future with this publication and then like … they just don’t want you” 64d
What the Hell Is Happening in Portland?
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Witnesses say heavily armed police officers have been dragging protesters into unmarked vans.
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The Cut On Thursday, July 23, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler was teargassed by federal agents while speaking to a crowd of demonstrators outside the city’s federal courthouse: “I can tell you with 100% honesty, I saw nothing that provoked this response” 67d
‘We Saw This Problem Coming’
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Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress, on remote legislating during a pandemic.
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The Cut Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress, on remote legislating during a pandemic, reports 67d
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The Cut Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress, on remote legislating during a pandemic, reports 64d
Their Summer Camp Tried to Be Safe. Kids Still Got Sick.
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The growing number of COVID outbreaks at day camps is an ominous sign for school reopenings.
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The Cut Even taking all the recommended precautions isn’t enough to keep group gatherings safe in areas seeing surging infection rates. What does the spate of outbreaks at camp mean for the fate of school reopenings? reports 68d
To Be a Writer I Have to Write Every Day
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It’s not true for everyone, but it is true for me.
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The Cut “The only way I broke this cycle of anxious thoughts and creative paralysis was to remind myself that writing is a practice, just like so many other things in life. I didn’t want my writing muscle to atrophy,” writes on writing every day 70d
All Your COVID-19 Questions, Answered
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Sober, simple, science-backed advice for managing the risks.
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The Cut How do we operate in a world where even the most mundane decisions — whether to meet a friend for a drink or to pop into the grocery store — can feel like matters of life or death? consulted more than a dozen doctors and scientists 70d
The Best Histories of U.S. Policing, According to Experts
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13 experts on the history of policing in the U.S. share the books that they’ve learned from the most.
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The Cut "Every time I think I know something about policing, I start digging and the truth turns out to be completely different than I thought. The more I learn, the less I know" 78d
The Secondhand Refrigerators Feeding New Yorkers
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Community fridges across the city are fighting food insecurity, reducing waste, and uniting neighbors.
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The Cut Community fridges across NYC are fighting food insecurity and uniting neighbors. “The first time I heard of a community fridge, I was stunned by how great of an idea it was. I was curious how it could possibly function on the mean streets of New York” 81d
Working Mom Says She Was Fired for Being a Mom While Working
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A San Diego woman says she was fired after a supervisor complained that her children were too noisy during work calls.
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The Cut 35-year-old mother of two Drisana Rios says she was fired after a supervisor complained that her children were too noisy during work calls. The company allegedly cited the economic impact of the pandemic as justification 82d