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  1. The Modern Love Issue

    Can a Sexless Marriage Be a Happy One?

    Experts and couples are challenging the conventional wisdom that sex is essential to relationships.

     By Amanda Montei

    CreditTonje Thilesen for The New York Times
  3. The Modern Love Issue

    Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule

    How they set boundaries, navigate jealousy, wingman their spouses and foster community.

     Interviews by Daniel Bergner

    COPY TK RESEARCH TK From left to right: C., A., D., K., A., S., and N. photographed in Somerville, MA, in March 2024.
    CreditAnne Vetter for The New York Times

  1. Online Dating After 50 Can Be Miserable. But It’s Also Liberating.

    You know so much more about yourself and your desires when you’re older that dating apps — even with all their frustrations — can bring unanticipated pleasure.

     By Maggie Jones

    CreditIllustration by Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants
    The Modern Love Issue

  2. My Girlfriend Said She Loved Me. Should I Say It Back Even if I’m Not Sure?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether it’s OK to profess love if you’re uncertain you feel it.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  3. How a ‘Nerdy’ Prosecutor Became the First to Try Trump

    Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., campaigned as the best candidate to go after the former president. Now he finds himself leading Trump’s first prosecution — and perhaps the only one before the November election.

     By Kim Barker, Jonah E. Bromwich and Michael Rothfeld

    “The case is not — the core of it’s not — money for sex,” Bragg said in a radio interview in December. “We would say it’s about conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business records to cover it up.”
    CreditPhilip Montgomery for The New York Times

  4. In Defense of Never Learning How to Cook

    I hated domesticity so much that for years, I lived happily without a kitchen. This $19 device helped me survive.

     By Iva Dixit

    CreditAlistair Matthews for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  5. The Playwright Who Fearlessly Reimagines America

    In her new play, ‘Sally & Tom,’ Suzan-Lori Parks brings exuberant provocation to the gravest historical questions.

     By Imani Perry

    Suzan-Lori Parks
    CreditArielle Bobb-Willis for The New York Times

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  1. The Modern Love Issue

    The 16 Messages That Led to Love

    Readers of the Modern Love column share the banter, emojis and wit that made them fall for each other.

    Illustrations by Tara Booth

     
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