This past Valentine’s Day, 71-year-old Brad Reese, proud grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H. B. Reese, posted a scathing open letter to the manager of corporate brand and editorial at Hershey, accusing the company of unforgivably altering many Reese’s products by replacing real chocolate with compound chocolate — basically using vegetable oils instead of cocoa butter to lower costs and replacing real peanut butter with “peanut-butter-style crèmes.” “And Reese wasn’t alone in feeling like everything was getting worse,” writes Rachel Handler. “Everyone in my life I spoke to agreed that something was amiss, that Reese’s — and commercial chocolate in general — didn’t taste the way it used to.” Handler would spend the next several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex, encountering dozens of eccentric characters, all disagreeing about the fundamental question of what chocolate even is and who it should be for. “I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured has or will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved somehow.” For our cover story, Handler takes a deep dive into the molten belly of the chocolate world. Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/vKKky_

A bunch of the ‘Glee’ cast wasted no time letting everyone know how excited they are about ‘Glee’ coming back. thecut.com/article/glee-cast…

Until recently, Max Miller, the 37-year-old Republican congressman from Ohio, has gone somewhat under the radar — a former Trump protégé, moderately effective in Congress, and little known outside Washington and Ohio. But over the past five months he’s entered the national stage through a series of alarming allegations. As he summarized it in August: “I’ve been portrayed as an abusive husband, an abusive father, and a violent man.” His ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Republican senator Bernie Moreno, has accused Miller of throwing her against a wall, scalding her with boiling water, and holding a gun to her head. This winter, Miller was investigated after their two-year-old daughter was discovered to have a broken collarbone. Miller is in many ways a middle-of-the-road Republican. His constituency, taken as a whole, is likewise red but moderate. Some of the biggest towns in his district area swung for Obama in his first presidential run. Miller won his seat comfortably in 2022 and 2024, and the district currently leans Republican by five points. For Miller, the election on November 3 is most likely to hinge on what voters believe and feel about his personal story. Miller has many times called his situation, and his ex-wife’s claims, “sad,” painting the experience as a painful ordeal. His recent legal filings had described the toll as “significant ongoing mental distress, fear, anxiety, emotional harm, and fear for safety, reputation, and parental rights.” But at a recent deposition, roughly a month from election day, Miller appeared, writes Heath, to be having fun. Heath reports on the violent accusations plaguing the Republican congressman and his reelection bid: nymag.visitlink.me/h04XZ1

Crescent Duck Farm — the only duck farm left on Long Island — is open again after avian flu threatened to close it, and Long Island’s once-thriving duck industry, for good. grubstreet.com/article/cresc…

In this week’s ‘My Two Cents,’ The Cut’s personal-finance columnist Charlotte Cowles speaks with four women who have each dealt with messy financial debts after a breakup. thecut.com/article/breakups-…

He dated Allen Ginsberg, partied with Steve Rubell, and somehow has one of the buzziest albums of 2026. It only gets stranger from there. vulture.com/article/can-niro…

The president keeps admiring other men’s bodies at his rallies. So if you’re voting solely based on who has a MAGA-approved butt, you’re in luck. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

At a Lenape Powwow in in Prospect Park, Indigenous dancers, artists, and musicians gathered to drum, sing, and compete in dance contests. curbed.com/article/lenape-po…

In this installment of ‘The Hard Part,’ Amil Niazi responds to a reader’s request for useful first-time parenting advice as they deal with anxiety and information overload. thecut.com/article/good-advi…

Trump-backed billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy appeared “unbeatable” in Ohio. Now, he’s getting desperate. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Republican Congressman Tom Kean Jr. disappeared for months. As he fights for political survival in the midterms, he’s barely emerging from the shadows. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Every weekday, The Cut’s astrology expert, Claire Comstock-Gay (a.k.a. Madame Clairevoyant), reads the horoscope for every zodiac sign. thecut.com/article/daily-hor…

The Ohio congressman, a Trump protégé, has been accused of child abuse and spousal abuse and of having a history of violence. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Theater Review: ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ loses its bite in this musical adaptation that’s heavy on the folksy stomps and fiddles. vulture.com/article/theater-…

Billy Crystal’s solo show on Broadway ‘860’ focuses on the loss of his home in the Palisades Fire, though he is often preoccupied with keeping things light. vulture.com/article/theater-…

This week the plot thickens — though it’s still not nearly as thick as Lee (Ethan Hawke) is capable of being. vulture.com/article/the-lowd…

Nikki from ‘Obsesssion’ met Nikki from ‘Obsesssion’ at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood. Inde Navarratte was impressed that her theme park doppelganger didn’t break character. vulture.com/article/hallowee…

For a few years, Elizabeth Holmes was everywhere. There she was on the cover of ‘Forbes’ in 2014, wearing heavy eyeliner and a black turtleneck, holding a vial pinched between her thumb and her index finger. For ‘Inc.’ magazine, she kept the turtleneck but dropped the vial, added a faint half-smile, and crossed her arms over her chest. She was the world’s youngest “self-made billionaire,” the celebrated founder of Theranos and inventor of a device that could use a single finger prick to test for hundreds of conditions. The black turtleneck does not appear in ‘You Can See Everything,’ the blockbuster new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Instead, a softer and more domestic version of Holmes takes over the screen. She wears neutrals and goes barefaced except for mascara; she often holds a baby, the youngest of her two children with partner Billy Evans. They live in a rental on the beach. In this setting, her blonde frizz makes her look more like a busy mom than a prodigy in charge of her own image. “But as there was a knowingness to the younger Holmes’s image, there is a knowingness to how she presents herself in the film,” writes Sarah Jones. “This is the real Liz, Evans says, but is it?” Read more from Jones about Holmes’s unrecognizable and calculated new image: nymag.visitlink.me/4bO77u

A single survivor’s chaotic strategy results in one of the most baffling, riveting votes in recent memory. vulture.com/article/survivor…