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Jessica Grose

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The Hyrox Debacle and Our Sick Relationship to Competition

The Hyrox Debacle and Our Sick Relationship to Competition

A woman soiling herself is extreme. But so is the way we treat sports.

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‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’ and the Horror of Spiritual Abuse

‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’ and the Horror of Spiritual Abuse

When faith is used to control and subordinate women, they leave the church.

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JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.

JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.

Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.

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I Understand Why a Jury Could Not Convict Lindsay Clancy

Postpartum psychosis is misunderstood and a poor fit for the justice system.

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Selling My Grandparents’ Home Is Like Losing Them Again

A plot of land was the last thing connecting us to my grandparents.

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The Scandinavian Solution to A.I. in Schools

Every minute of delay in regulating A.I. use in schools is another opportunity for Big Tech to fill the vacuum.

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How a Type-A Mom Learned to (Briefly) Unclench

Or, how a river taught me how to go with the flow (sorry, had to).

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McKenna West’s Surrogacy Should Not Be a Political Football

The surrogacy industry is long overdue for a reckoning.

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Even Elite Colleges Have Become Trade Schools

Short-term return on investment is an impoverished view of a college education.

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Tradwives and the Manosphere Have Lost Their Viral Appeal

Nara Smith’s illusion meets the anti-Trump reality.

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If This Is Medical Freedom, Why Do I Feel Trapped?

If This Is Medical Freedom, Why Do I Feel Trapped? I was listening to a podcast recently in which a woman I respect talked about taking peptides. I...

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Trump’s Chaos Is a Job Killer

The administration’s capriciousness and the long tail of federal funding cuts.

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‘The Five-Star Weekend’ Makes Middle Age Look Magical

Lately, the media loves to humiliate women in their 40s and 50s; this show reveres them.

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The Job Market Is a Game Where Everyone’s a Loser

A.I. is destroying the application process for employers and potential employees. We need to fix it.

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How GLP-1s Feed Our Sick Culture

For women, they’re a depressingly rational choice.

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The Purgatory Job Market of 2026

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The Gap Between the Families We Have and the Ones Conservatives Want

It makes absolutely no sense to create a definition of marriage that excludes the desires and ideals of a substantial majority of Americans.

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Gambling Addiction Starts in Middle School

In part because gambling ads are in everything, everywhere, all at once.

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The Deck Is Stacked Against Healthy Eating

We need the will to push back against corporate interests.

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The Bipartisan Hatred of All Things Feminine

Republicans have spent years disparaging all things associated with women. Now Democrats are following suit.

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Stop Location-Tracking Your Friends and Lovers

Your friends don’t need to know where you are 24/7.

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Americans Don’t Talk to Their Neighbors. That’s a Problem for Kids.

‘Stranger danger’ was always a misleading idea, and it’s bad for our children.

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It’s Not a Mystery Why Fertility Rates Are Declining

More and more, smaller families and a more manageable work-life balance are the goal.

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Unfortunately, We Have to Take Spencer Pratt Seriously as a Politician

Reality stars and influencers in government are here to stay.

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You Can’t Be Born Here. You Can Only Die.

The existential pain of losing birth services.

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Visible Abs and the Millennial Midlife Crisis

We’re on a #fitnessjourney together.

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There’s Another Reason Gen Z Can’t Find Work

It’s not just because of A.I. This started 40 years ago.

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The Women Behind the Whisper Network That Brought Down Eric Swalwell

Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales are now being held accountable thanks in part to the feminism of the 2010s.

15.04.2026 30

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Deepfake Nudes Are Haunting America’s Teens

But a new set of lawsuits may finally hold tech companies accountable.

08.04.2026 30

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The Manosphere Continues to Devolve

A new documentary shows that social media misogyny is just a new way to sell old garbage.

18.03.2026 30

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Teens Don’t Need No Thought Control

The high schoolers fighting back against tech use.

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What Watching a Furious Hillary Clinton Showed Me

Her exasperation during her Epstein-related deposition channeled the national mood for some of us.

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The Fantasy of a Comfy Retirement Has Always Been a Mirage

On the sorry state of retirement savings in the United States, and a policy that could help.

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New Dads Aren’t a ‘Waste of Time and Space’

Why are we still debating paternity leave?

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Why Public School Families Are Protesting Linda McMahon’s Visits

Linda McMahon is shocked — shocked! — that there’s been a backlash to the Department of Education’s ‘History Rocks!’ tour.

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Peter Attia, the Epstein Files and the Lie Propping Up Big Wellness

Health influencers sell themselves as iconoclasts, but many have cozy, uncritical relationships with the rich and powerful.

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Welcome to the Resistance, Public School Parents

School communities are central to organizing against federal harassment.

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The Trad Life Fantasy Was Never Real

Stories from the past and present suggest that families have always needed a social safety net.

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The Havoc That One Disgruntled Student Can Wreak on a University

If college education is merely a transaction, educators — and facts — are vulnerable.

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The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century

This is how the Heritage Foundation wants to turn back the clock.

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Public Shame Is the Most Effective Tool for Battling Big Tech

Our federal government won’t regulate fast enough (or at all), but that doesn’t mean regular Americans are helpless.

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American Violence Is Pushing Families to Think About Leaving

I asked why so many women were considering leaving the country. The guns, several responded.

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Anti-Vaccine Influencers Have Shown Me the Limits of Resistance

I was wrong about how to push back.

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How My Interfaith Family Figured Out the Holidays

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A Right-Wing Playbook to Weaken Colleges from Within

When students are treated like customers, they can demand educators grade accordingly.

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Jesus Bot Is Always on Demand (for a Small Monthly Fee)

Faith is not meant to be transactional or tailored to you.

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Our Depressing Vaccine Future Laid Bare on the C.D.C. Website

Kennedy has a rhetorical advantage in that his deceptions can be definitive while scientific honesty has to come with caveats.

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How Rural Kids Got Left Behind

We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.

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This Play Is an Antidote to Women’s Despair

The show, in its depiction of the early feminist movement, is an essential part of the ongoing fight for women’s progress.

15.11.2025 40

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Dehumanizing and Dystopian: How Gen Z-ers See Work

Technology has left them with little autonomy or security in their jobs.

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