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Jessica Grose

Jessica Grose

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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.

27.11.2025 10

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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.

21.11.2025 30

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How Rural Kids Got Left Behind

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

20.11.2025 40

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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 6

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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.

05.11.2025 4

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Why Big Wellness Loves Middle Age Women

Will ashwagandha cure my “cortisol face”?

03.11.2025 20

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The Worst Losers in Trump’s Economy

Massive cuts to health, education and immigration are disproportionately taking a toll.

22.10.2025 6

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My Daughter, a Vintage Betsey Johnson Dress and Me

Seeing my kid wear my bat mitzvah dress gave me a new outlook on adolescence and sentimental objects.

18.10.2025 6

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Kennedy’s Guide to Confusing and Scaring New Parents

Circumcision is the latest example of Kennedy seizing on a hot-button issue that already has entrenched and aggressive internet partisans.

15.10.2025 50

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The Erasure of American Working Women

With the gutting of a federal agency, we’ll never know why the number of unemployed women is rising.

01.10.2025 10

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How Moms Got Caught in Trump’s Cross Hairs

28.09.2025 60

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Elizabeth Gilbert Can’t Control the Narrative

Memoirs don’t have to be guides for living.

21.09.2025 50

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Kennedy’s Vaccine Mess

We definitely need to restore America’s trust in vaccines, but the amateur hour A.C.I.P. display isn’t going to do it.

20.09.2025 60

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The Unexpected Upside of Phone Bans in Schools

Turns out kids check out more books when they can’t doom scroll.

19.09.2025 90

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A Small but Telling Moment in Kennedy’s Hearing

Unlike his combative exchanges with senators about vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was conciliatory and accommodating about agriculture interests.

05.09.2025 70

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‘The Biggest Loser’ and America’s Addiction to Extreme Wellness

Health has become polarized by the Trump administration, which shares a similar ethos to “The Biggest Loser,” including an obsession with personal...

03.09.2025 20

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The Ingredients of a Lasting Marriage

“A Marriage at Sea” provides a kind of rebuke to the current extreme cultural narratives about heterosexual romance.

28.08.2025 20

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Moms Need to Give MAHA a Taste of Its Own Medicine

Peer-to-peer persuasion is a necessary tool right now.

20.08.2025 10

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The Problem Is With Men’s Sperm

Environmental toxins may be depleting male fertility. It’s time to raise awareness in a major way.

12.08.2025 10

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Reimagining the Humanities to Make Them A.I.-Proof

Technology is making the old ways of teaching ineffective. A new way is starting to emerge.

06.08.2025 8

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The F.D.A.’s Panel on Antidepressants During Pregnancy Was Alarmingly Biased

It went against a medical consensus and may scare women who need help.

03.08.2025 50

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The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown

We’re looking in the wrong places for answers to boys’ struggles.

23.07.2025 40

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The Benson Boone Crumbl Cookie and Our Ultraprocessed Culture

I want to make it stop, and my earnest admonitions about the emptiness of American materialism are not working.

19.07.2025 10

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Why We Mistake the Wholesomeness of Gen Z for Conservatism

Their moderation has been misread.

16.07.2025 7

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Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America

The most vulnerable mothers have the most to lose from Medicaid cuts.

10.07.2025 80

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Efficiency Is an Ultimately Empty and Unattainable Life Goal

05.07.2025 10

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The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture

How thinness as a virtue shifts from debauchery to conservatism.

02.07.2025 20

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Don’t Let Silicon Valley Move Fast and Break Children’s Minds

The federal government needs to step up and regulate artificial intelligence now.

25.06.2025 10

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‘Motherhood Should Come With a Warning Label’

What’s the real cost of motherhood? Here’s what our readers said.

25.06.2025 70

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What I Learned Listening to MAHA

To move beyond the current administration, we need to listen to one another and think beyond crude divisions.

19.06.2025 20

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Gen Z Is Barely Holding On to the American Dream

They’re still clinging on, but at the bottom rung of the ladder.

11.06.2025 3

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A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12

The secretary of education said it would be a “wonderful thing.” Lots of parents disagree.

15.05.2025 90

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My Mother and I Bond Over Ignoring Mother’s Day

The staying power of family culture.

10.05.2025 10

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MAGA Beauty Is Built to Go Viral

These Republican women use the vernacular of influencers to spread their message. It’s working, for now.

08.05.2025 70

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A Great Leap Forward for American Fathers

Dads started spending more time with their kids and realized they liked it.

02.05.2025 40

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Lauren Sanchez, Sheryl Sandberg and the Death of Celebrity Feminism

A rocket trip can only go so far.

10.04.2025 50

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‘White Lotus’ Has an Old-School View of Relationships

In Mike White’s show, love and money go together.

06.04.2025 6

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Nobody Wants to Be Responsible for Dismal K-12 Test Scores

Trump wants to give power back to the states. Some states are lowering standards.

02.04.2025 7

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Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools

What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.

29.03.2025 10

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The Share of Religious Americans Will Continue to Decline

There has been a plateau of “nones” in the past few years. It won’t last.

13.03.2025 80

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Steeling My Daughters Against a New Kind of Misogyny

What keeps me up at night about the feminist backlash we’re living through.

05.03.2025 10

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Every 100 Years America Produces a Robert Kennedy Jr.

Charismatic influencers from a century ago presaged this moment.

15.02.2025 10

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Trump’s Education Plans and America’s Most Vulnerable Students

Hobbling the Department of Education means parents can’t hold states accountable for services.

13.02.2025 20

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Single Women Think Men Just Want a Fembot

Women don’t want to be emotional support drones, and that’s how many single women see their role in marriage.

02.02.2025 30

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Disaster-Ravaged Families Are Begging: Put Schools First

Climate-related disruptions are here to stay, and children remain an afterthought.

30.01.2025 40

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Even Religious People Don’t Trust Religious Institutions

And why secular people should care.

23.01.2025 4

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Freedom From Harassment and Exploitation on Social Media, but Not for Girls

On “Girls Gone Wild,” Meta’s moderation changes and the permanence of online cruelty.

16.01.2025 10

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Surveilling Speech Won’t Increase Birthrates

It’s easier for governments to restrict freedom of expression than it is to fix material conditions.

25.12.2024 40

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Men in Caring Jobs Will Make Society More Equal

Advertisement Supported by Jessica Grose By Jessica Grose Opinion Writer In her prescient 2012 book, “The End of Men,” my friend Hanna Rosin...

12.12.2024 60

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Teens Are Getting Botox. I’m Going Full Crone in 2025.

Advertisement Subscriber-only Newsletter By Jessica Grose Opinion Writer Whenever I can, I try to deprogram my daughters from the overwhelming...

07.12.2024 20

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