A look inside the pipeline.
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Trad Wives, MAHA, and the Women’s Wellness Pipeline

A look inside the pipeline.

Akilah Hughes
Jul 11
 
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A new flavor of conservative content is targeting women online—and it’s going viral. This week, on How Is This Better, I explore the rise of the "tradwife" aesthetic, the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement, and how a wellness pipeline is pulling women to the political right.

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To help me understand it all, I talk with two journalists who’ve tracked this trend firsthand, and went to the recent Turning Point USA conference for young women where all of it was on full display.

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  • Madeline Peltz, independent journalist, Number Two Pencil

  • EJ Dickson, senior writer for The Cut

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