Presenting our Fall Fashion issue cover star: Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
She’s left the Firm behind. Harry’s found a polo team in Santa Barbara. The kids are doing great. Now she's ready for her own next act. @AllisonPDavis reports: thecut.io/3wBQut0
“Do you want to know a secret?” Meghan asks The Cut. For our Fall Fashion issue, the Duchess opens up about her new freedom, her new podcast, and her charming new California life. thecut.io/3cvnb4C
Meghan is still very aware that people see her as a princess: “It’s important to be thoughtful about it… there are little girls that I meet and they’re just like, ‘Oh my God, it’s a real-life princess.’” thecut.io/3cvnb4C
“I first downloaded Tinder in the spring of 2013, seven months after it launched,” she writes. “I’d heard about it as a concept (Grindr for straights) but felt exempt from needing it.” thecut.io/3PSGIKC
With the dating app turning 10 next month, she reflects on years of re-(re-re-re-)downloading Tinder—even if it’s become the dating air, or maybe the pollution, we all breathe: thecut.io/3PSGIKC
In November 2019, detectives from the Rexburg, Idaho, police department showed up on Lori Vallow’s doorstep, asking about the whereabouts of her 7-year-old son, JJ thecut.io/3OpZ6JC
The next day, the police returned to Vallow’s home. But it was empty. Sometime in the night, she had disappeared with her new husband, Chad Daybell thecut.io/39FnWH0
When the authorities finally tracked her and Daybell down in February 2020, they were renting a spacious condo in Hawaii with a golf course view, relaxing on the beach thecut.io/39FnWH0
At one U.S. high school, a list titled “PEOPLE TO LOOK OUT FOR” appeared on the wall of the girls’ bathroom — @lizweil reports on what happened next thecut.io/3OayGMq
The list was one part of the student body’s effort to change how their school responded to reports of sexual harrassment, abuse, and sexual assault thecut.io/3Ozjpol
But with students left to act as judge, jury, and executioner, the lines separating different levels of violation blurred, and once a student was place on the list, their reputation became irreparable thecut.io/3Ozjpol
Our March cover star is @abbydphillip ⭐ In conversation with @GayleKing, the journalist and #InsidePolitics host talks about her upcoming book, covering the Trump administration as a Black reporter, and the lesson of 2020 thecut.io/3vMJ3x6
@abbydphillip@GayleKing .@abbydphillip: “I think that the lesson of 2020 has been that more people need to be involved. We can encourage and empower other people to speak confidently and knowledgeably about race in this country” thecut.io/3vMJ3x6
@abbydphillip@GayleKing .@abbydphillip: “As a journalist, this is my way of making a small difference. If I can shine light on these issues and bring the perspectives and the challenges facing Black people in this country to light, it’s a good day. And that’s what keeps me going” thecut.io/3vMJ3x6