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Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy is a contributing writer for The Free Press and co-host of the podcast The Mom Wars. Her work has appeared in The Spectator and The Telegraph.
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‘Love Island’ Fans Are Awful
The contestants are young, dumb, and unbelievably hot. Yet spectators demand that none of them ever, ever made a teenage mistake on the internet.
Kara Kennedy
Two Drinks with . . . the Mom Who Prodded Trump About Childcare
Reshma Saujani went viral for asking Donald Trump how he was going to make childcare cheaper. ‘In this country, we love girls, but we hate women,’ she…
Kara Kennedy
When Sluts Settle Down
Alex Cooper’s überpopular podcast instructs women to sleep around. When she announced this week that she’s expecting a baby with her husband, people got…
Kara Kennedy
How Perimenopause Became America’s New Health Scare
Influencers are selling lubricants. Gwyneth Paltrow is talking about hormone replacement therapy. Drug companies are paying for ghostwritten articles…
Kara Kennedy
Let the Kids Smoke
A new tobacco ban in Britain for anyone born after 2008 may make the next generation safer. So why do I feel like we’re losing something?
Kara Kennedy
Why Don’t I Breastfeed? Because I Don’t Want to!
Despite what a random mom online might say, you don’t have to martyr yourself to be a good mother.
Kara Kennedy
The Over-Therapized Lives of Mormon Wives
Taylor Frankie Paul and the rest of #MomTok have never been more into therapy. They’ve also never been worse people.
Kara Kennedy
I Married a Man I’d Known a Few Months
You have to take your time before you commit to someone. That was the advice I grew up with. I completely ignored it.
Kara Kennedy
Why Is No One Having Sex?
‘I don’t want to perform.’ ‘Sleep wins.’ ‘She doesn’t have the same high sex drive as me.’ I spoke to the Americans behind the sex recession—and this is…
Kara Kennedy
Why Are So Many British Women Getting Abortions?
New government figures suggest that, amid a fertility slump, there has been a sharp rise in abortions in the UK. Our reporter speaks to the women who…
Kara Kennedy
In Defense of Brooklyn Beckham
I never thought I’d feel sorry for this tragically untalented nepo baby. I was wrong.
Kara Kennedy
The British Baby Bust
In the UK, deaths could outnumber births this year. To understand why, I spoke to the women driving the trend.
Kara Kennedy
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