Fascinated by and somewhat jealous of the tradwife movement, Amy McCarthy attempts a weekend experiment: to live life in full tradwife mode for 48 hours, with a scrupulously clean house and food made from scratch. The first task on my list was driving to a nearby farm, where I could buy raw milk on-site. Like most folks, I’m pretty skeptical...
In 2014, Elliot Rodger murdered six people, wounded 14 others, and killed himself in Isla Vista, California. The mass shooting, and in particular Rodger’s online associations with the “incel” community, prompted salacious news coverage that painted Rodger as an aberrant monster. In truth, he was an unwell, unstable young man whose actions—like those...
Butter seems to be everywhere, from featured menu items at fancy restaurants to viral TikTok videos. Some dairy producers are worried that the new boom times, engineered by a powerful dairy lobby, come at a cost to the environment and to small farms: Partnering with food companies to roll out products that contain ever-escalating quantities...
Sidney McIntyre-Starko collapsed after ingesting fentanyl in a University of Victoria dorm room. Lori Culbert reports on the contradictions in the University of Victoria’s version of the timeline of events and the series of errors made that cost the student her life. UVic insisted “naloxone was administered within seven minutes” of student...
The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones. Pro Publica and New Mexico In Depth distributed cards to unhoused people, asking what the losses meant to them: ...
Admittedly, the timing of this is weird: Hanif Abdurraqib and André 3000 talking about the flute album 3 Stacks dropped six months ago? But at the same time: Hanif Abdurraqib and André 3000 talking, period. As lyrical and loopy (respectively, and respectfully) as you’d hope for, with Abdurraqib making a compelling case that New Blue Sun isn’t just a...