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Culture
GLP-1 Envy: Let’s Talk.
When the women in your friend group are suddenly, quietly smaller—and nobody's talking about it—something shifts. A dietitian names the feeling.
by Bonnie Taub-Dix
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Life

How to Dissolve a Woman

The personal cost of “having it all” before women were allowed to want anything else. 
By Judith Hannan
Wellness

The Protein Industrial Complex

Pop-Tarts, popcorn, lattes, potato chips. But what midlife women actually need is more complicated.
By Laura Fraser
Life
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What My Dog’s DNA Test Was Really For

A DNA test for the dog. A reckoning for me.
By Margie Zable Fisher
Culture

I Trained the AI That’s Coming for My Job. Then I Became It.

The real threat isn’t that AI will write like us. It’s that we’ll start acting like machines.
By Lynn Braz
Life

The Case for Being Bad at Something

After 50, being bad at something isn’t a problem. It’s the point.
By Dr. Gayle MacBride
Money

What Does a Feminist Investment Portfolio Actually Look Like?

Gender-lens investing is a lot more than a pink logo. Here’s the framework behind the portfolios that are actually built on equity.
By Kristin Hull
Dear Reader
Dear Reader

What I Lost When I Lost the Soup Report

Michele Shapiro
Dear Reader

Your Future Self Will Be Too Short to Reach the Towels

Maura Carlin
Dear Reader

Why I Cut My Hair, Stripped My Closet, and Put My Life in Storage

Marjah Simon
Dear Reader

Tech Is Stealing Our Agency. We’re Letting it Happen.

Patricia Garrison
Minimoirs

Best life now, worth the wait. Learning. Teaching. Making new memories, and reliving old, good ones. Happiness counts.

Lucy

A penguin born to lions escaped into books until she could travel for real and discover worlds within.

Stephanie

I believed him. Emotional vulnerability is necessary to con, but he didn’t know who he was f*cking with.

Betty
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