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The tradwife, or traditional wife, is an online female persona that’s trending on social media. (Screenshots from TikTok)

BY OLIVER C. HAUG | The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025—a nearly 900-page policy agenda for the next Republican president—is dominating headlines for its regressive and alarming agenda. Some standout proposals include dismantling climate protections, dissolving whole departments like Education and Commerce, and putting draconian restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care. But embedded in the framework of the document is a vision of social overhaul that centers the kind of gender roles and family structures that tradwives have been promoting all along.

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Professional entertainer and wrestler Hulk Hogan rips his shirt as he speaks on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

BY MEL LEONOR BARCLAY, THE 19TH | The GOP convention put on display the party’s version of masculinity that has shaped Trump’s time in the public eye, from his cultivated image as a playboy in New York to his campaigns for office.

“The idea of the president as the hypermasculine father protector figure has been with us since the start,” said Melissa Heldman, who has long studied masculinity in presidential politics. Trump’s brand of masculinity, she said, has been that of an aggressor and open bully more “than probably any previous president.”

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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: Concerns of political violence are on the rise after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump; insights from the historic Mexican elections; for the first time, the Olympics will have gender balance, with equal primetime coverage for men’s and women’s events; and more.

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