Jessica Grose

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jessica Grose

A few weeks ago, a South Carolina woman wearing stilettos and raw-edged jeans got into an expletive-laced shouting match with a man in the aisle of a beauty store. This fracas went viral on multiple social media platforms, which would be totally unremarkable - just another day of verbal aggression, social unrest and cosmetic consumption on the internet. But the incident made it to People magazine because the woman is Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Ross Douthat |Jessica Grose |David Wallace-Wells

Ross douthat, Jessica Grose and David Wallace-wellsAlexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted a written conversation with the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat and the Opinion writers Jessica Grose and David Wallace-Wells about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first two months as secretary of health and human services. Alexandra Sifferlin: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to tackle chronic disease and take on the food and pharmaceutical industries.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jessica Grose

For a few weeks last fall, I was eating a deflated rectangle made of cottage cheese, eggs and shredded Cheddar every day for lunch. When this unholy concoction first came out of the oven, it would seem so fluffy and filled with promise; warm and buttery yellow. By the time this egg bake made it to my plate, it fell into a sad lump. It always tasted fine; I've had much worse. But it's certainly not what I would have chosen to eat regularly if I had not listened to the siren song of #proteinfluencers.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jessica Grose

Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held his first news briefing as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to address a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about rates of autism among children in the United States. He used the opportunity to spread falsehoods. Kennedy claimed that "studying genetic causes" of autism is a "dead end." That's because "we know it's environmental exposure. Genes do not cause epidemics," he continued.

2 months ago | jill.substack.com | Jessica Grose |Joan Walsh |Hannah Allam |Carter Sherman

Photo by Melanie Deziel on UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.