Cleaning up the biggest New Year's mess in America
While the rest of us head to bed in the early hours of Jan. 1, New York's sanitation team gets to work












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Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.
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Holy mate-trimony: the rise of 'friendship marriages'
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Trump shrugs off warnings over trade war costs
Feature Trump's tariffs are spiraling the U.S. toward an economic crisis as shipments slow down—and China doesn't plan to back down