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The Women Reversing Their Plastic Surgery. Plus. . .
Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Suzy Weiss on the rise of “leg hair harassment.” Kat Rosenfield on a helicopter parent’s worst nightmare. Amanda Knox on a chatbot’s false confession. Rafaela Siewert sits down with a Brooklyn DJ wh...
Just Say It: Plastic Surgery Is Bad for Us
Women online are reversing their plastic surgery—but all of them caveat their posts with ‘I don’t want to judge!’ Freya India asks: Why not?
At the age of 26, Sierra spent weeks with a drooping eye, crying multiple times a day, unable to w...
Two Drinks with . . . One of Russia’s Most Wanted
At the age of 19, Egor Cherniuk went to prison because he worked for Putin’s archnemesis, Alexei Navalny. Now he’s DJing in New York. ‘Americans are extremely self-censoring,’ he tells Rafaela Siewert.
Egor Cherniuk doesn’t always feel lik...
‘One Night Only’ Is Bad. There Should Be More Movies Like It.
“Three years ago, premarital sex was outlawed in the United States except for one night a year.”
The premise of the new rom-com One Night Only could not be clearer—it flashes on-screen at the beginning of the movie—and yet, it begs about a...
A Time Capsule of Free-Range Childhood
The kids have guns and cigarettes, and sure as hell want to see a dead body. ‘Stand by Me’ would horrify helicopter parents, but it’s worth rewatching, writes Kat Rosenfield.
Three adolescent boys are gathered in a ramshackle tree house—th...
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