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The tradwife brand may finally be crumbling
Lifestyle influencer Nara Smith, the couture-clad queen of tradwives, really wishes people would stop calling her a tradwife. She’s rejected the label several times before, but her recent conversation with “Call Her Daddy” podcaster Alex Cooper featured her strongest denial…
August was brutal for consumers. September could be worse
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday painted a grim picture for American consumers and is predicted to shape how the Federal Reserve rules on interest rates next week. Although August saw more jobs added than expected,…
A federal court says the government can lie to you. That will backfire
A version of this essay first appeared in Crash Course, Salon’s free morning newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, plus more of Salon’s bold journalism on how policies, movements and culture wars affect real people. A week ago,…
If AI kills us, don’t blame the machine
Imagine a stopped cable car sitting at the top of a steep hill in San Francisco. There’s a switch just below the car that would send the trolley onto one of two tracks. You don’t know where either track goes…
Kids are back in classrooms. Health misinformation could shape the school year
This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. Meet Barbara and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. All summer, Dr. Marvia Jones worried over the data. Jones, director of the Kansas City Health…
From Vietnam to 9/11, America keeps abandoning its heroes
On Sept. 11 I was working for Pacifica Network News. WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM, is one of the network’s flagship stations. At the time, it was located at 120 Wall Street — just blocks away from the World Trade Center.…
What Burning Man’s Gen Z problem says about the festival
The first time Samantha R. went to Burning Man, it was on a whim. She hadn’t read much about it and had no idea what to expect. She received a free ticket from someone she met at a Grateful Dead…
#TradWives are not real housewives. “Fargo” shows us the heroic difference between the two
Internet-based subcultures that bleed into the mainstream are inevitably misinterpreted or incorrectly defined. Take the whole “tradwife” trend, for instance. As my Salon colleague Amanda Marcotte describes in her recent article on this weird phenomenon, so-called tradwifes are a strain…
AMC, Warner Bros. bring back movie snobbery — and it’s about time
Ordinarily, I try not to spend too much of my one precious life watching Marvel trailers — or Marvel movies, for that matter. But occasionally, snobs don’t have a choice, such as when they’re sitting in the dark of a…
Looks like Jimmy Kimmel isn’t done dealing with FCC “nonsense”
Jimmy Kimmel’s opponents in the Trump administration really don’t seem to understand how late-night’s relationship with political campaigns works. If they did, Texas State Rep. James Talarico’s planned Thursday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would have occurred without much fanfare.…