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PROACTIVE INGREDIENTS

Dermatologists share what to look for in your skin-care picks to avoid fine lines, age spots, and sun damage.

CATCH SOME DOWNTIME

Our always-on culture can be bad for you. Here's how to give your brain a break.

Angling for the Big Fish That Breaks Hearts

People fall in love with Patagonia for many reasons. The breathtaking landscape. The gauchos. The Malbec For me it was the thrill of fly-fishing in a mountain stream near the bottom the world. On my latest trip would I finally hook that elusive trout worthy of my majestic surroundings? By David Coggins

The Undeniable Joel Kim Booster

The actor, comedian, and writer has hit his career sweet spot: not \"widely reviled on the Internet yet\" but high on the authentic power of making people laugh.

IN JUDGMENT OF DONALD TRUMP

He may never face justice for his most serious offenses. But the everyday prosecutors who've won clear verdicts against him have exposed Trump as the unfit citizen he truly is.

TRAVEL GETS LIT

Book butlers! Curated libraries! Custom cruises! Literary-themed vacations are the hot new trend in tourism.

RED ALERT

Dior’s asymmetrical, angular Chiffre Rouge watch is back and as bold as ever

EVERY THING MEANS SOME THING WHAT IT'S LIKE BEING ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

Last night he came downstairs around bedtime and didn't see either of them.

Shawn Fain Is Done Making Nice

The combative new president of the United Auto Workers has emerged as the strongest voice in a resurgent labor movement in America

Game Time for Grown-ups

My most meaningful form of self-help right now involves an afternoon of Skee-Ball, Super Shot, Pac-Man, and a double-pepperoni flatbread from the Shareables menu—all punched into my Dave Buster’s Power Card

SHOES FOR GETTING WEIRD

The Rick Owens sneakers that remind Christopher Fenimore, the photographer behind the popular Five Fits series on Esquire.com, of a stranger time in his life

MAC DADDY

You need the simple, streamlined mackintosh coat in your spring rotation

Your Vacation Home Could Provide Tax-free Income

If you plan to rent out your vacation home, it's important to understand how your proceeds will be taxed.

At Board Meetings, the CEO Should Get Lost

Directors need to candidly discuss company leadership. They can't do that if the top manager is also the board chair.

Think Liberally and Deliberately

Why do I devote four weeks a year to reading and thinking? So I can supercharge all the other days.

The Burn of Slow Churn

Re/Max co-founder and chairman Dave Liniger saw his retention rate as a badge of honor. Truth is, it was hurting his reputation.

THE CRUSADING KOMBUCHA CEO AND 200 YEARS OF STARTUP-DESTROYING LEGAL DOCTRINE

Michael Peter wants to dismantle a longstanding legal precedent that can prevent entrepreneurs from getting their day in court. His not-so-secret weapon: A small-business superhero named Reverend Justice.

THE GUY WHO PUTS COPS IN THE SKY

BLAKE RESNICK, A 24-YEAR-OLD WITH FUNDING FROM SAM ALTMAN AND SAM BANKMAN-FRIED, IS ON A WILD RIDE TO REINVENT THE FUTURE OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

Screen Play

Joe Thomas and his co-founders were two weeks away from running out of money for their software startup when, in 2016, they launched a new product and went all in on prerecorded videos as a workplace communication tool.

AI Gets to Work

It's leading-edge, it's downright scary and it's here. Following AI's breakout year, we take a look under the hood at how entrepreneurs are applying the tech and what you need to know to stay competitive.

MEET THE WILDEST CHARCTER IN THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC SCENE

Right now, to be the most important new voice in Afrobeats means you might just be the most important new voice in global music, period. That title currently belongs to Asake, a Nigerian singer with bonkers style and a penchant for making speaker-melting hits.

QUEEN of the YOUTH

Hunter Schafer has built a career by saying yes: to activism, to modeling, and then to acting, where Euphoria made her a star. Now, with a budding movie career and big plans in just about every field you can imagine, the Gen Z icon is figuring out exactly what sort of creative life she'd like to lead.

Shelley Zalis

On that elusive work-life balance, her own version of perfection, and pivoting with positivity.

ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE FEMALE FOUNERS 250

SUCCESS often breeds success-but triumphs also arise out of necessity. Consider that Airbnb, Uber, and Rent the Runway started during the Great Recession. In many ways, the past year was defined by similar tumult. While the U.S. never technically entered a recession, the retrenchment in investment and ad spending paired with the psychological-if not direct-toll of tech layoffs yielded tough times indeed. But female founders are nothing if not resilient, and their achievements defied the conditions they faced, giving us cause to expand our list to 250 of them. They're not ranked, but they are organized around themes. In the pages that follow, you'll find snapshots of courage from women who've overcome trials-such as keeping the internet running in war zones, coping with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, or facing personal crises. You'll also learn how this year's top female founders grew their collective 2023 revenue to more than $8.86 billion, raised $6.2 billion in funding to date, and kept it together not just to survive, but to thrive.

INSIDE BANNY MCBRIDE'S LOWCOUNTRY COMEDY COMMUNE

After taking big screens and HBO by storm with his macho-lampooning humor, comedy hero Danny McBride uprooted his life in Hollywood to build his dream production studio in Charleston, South Carolina-away from the stifling industry, and alongside his closest friends and collaborators. That's where he's been unlocking a blistering new creative gear-and plotting his best work yet.

MARNI'S FRANCESCO RISSO WILL NEVER GROWUP

The eccentric Italian designer is proving that the very serious business of fashion doesn't have to be very serious at all.

Beauty Filter

Countless companies have elevated everyday items to iconic: Apple upgraded the nerdy MP3 player, Nest turned thermostats into real estate selling points, and Aesop made hand soap a status symbol.

The New Gold Standard in Tasteful Watches

Piaget's Polo 79 once again marks the end of the steel sports watch's reign-and the start of something much more fun.

WELCOME TO LAUREN HALSEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD

The red-hot 36-year-old artist has achieved global success with a very local approach: applying imaginative, laserlike focus to a few square blocks of her hometown. In doing so, she renders and reflects what it's actually like to live and work in-and never, ever leave-South Central Los Angeles.

DARK KINGDOM

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-best friends and Nine Inch Nails bandmates-found unlikely creative fulfillment (and a couple of Oscars) by reassessing what they had to offer as musicians. Now they're thinking even bigger, and imagining an artistic empire of their own making.