Bindu Bansinath

3 weeks ago | thecut.com | Bindu Bansinath

Illustration: Olivier Heiligers Tariffs are coming, a trade war is looming, and most of us are overwhelmed with more debt than we can handle. Credit-card debt is at an all-time high, hitting a record $1.21 trillion last year, and people are having a harder time paying it off. More than 100 million people in the U.S. have some form of medical debt, and student-loan forgiveness now feels like a pipe dream. Even though debt is everywhere, there’s a persistent stigma around being in the red.

4 weeks ago | thecut.com | Bindu Bansinath

Internet strangers are burned out on TikTok’s food creators. Snark forums pick apart excessive Grazia olive-oil ads and lengthy pre-recipe personal anecdotes. But even the most stalwart snarkers don’t have shit to say about Hailee Catalano and Chuck Cruz. The New Jersey–based professional-chef duo rose to niche algorithmic fame on their respective TikTok accounts — @haileecatalano and @chuckischarles — where they prepare cozy beach sandwiches, crab lumpia, and spades of technical finesse.

1 month ago | thecut.com | Bindu Bansinath

Coachella season is officially underway, and while the masses are increasingly relying on “buy now, pay later” plans to attend the music festival in these recession-adjacent times, at least Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet had a blast. The couple, who’ve been romantically linked since 2023, arrived in the desert over the weekend and were TikTok’d in various states of PDA and festival bliss.

1 month ago | thecut.com | Bindu Bansinath

On Monday, in what sounds like a round of intergalactic Mad Libs, Gayle King, Katy Perry, and Lauren Sanchez geared up in custom blue Monse suits to go to space aboard the NS-31. Alongside two scientists and a film producer, they joined the first all-female crew flight of Jeff Bezos’s space-tourism company, Blue Origin (and the first all-female flight since 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space).

1 month ago | thecut.com | Bindu Bansinath

power Two years after Caroline Darian learned that her father, the convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot, drugged her mother and invited dozens of strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, France, for nearly a decade, she published a memoir, Et j’ai cessé de t’appeler Papa,detailing the aftermath of the shocking revelation.