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Maddie Oatman

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Writer + Senior Editor at Mother Jones; CO native drawn to big mountains and sunshine. Have my eye on stories about culture, environment, and the West.

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Tradwife horror story

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By Maddie Oatman 
| Mother Jones
Tradwives have been baking, churning, scrubbing, and harvesting their ways through our social media feeds for several years now, praising homemaking and subservience to their husbands on countless dedicated TikTok channels. With her pristine makeup and prairie dresses and endless cheerful obedience, this internet persona, the tradwife—as in “traditional” wife—seemed predestined to end up as a character in fiction or film.
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How Inequality Killed California’s Bohemian Floating Refuge

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By Maddie Oatman 
| Mother Jones
The first anchor-outs are thought to have settled in abandoned boats bobbing atop Marin County’s Richardson Bay after nearby San Francisco’s famous earthquake and fires of 1906.
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Hero of 2024: The sweet simplicity of Raffi

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By Maddie Oatman 
| Mother Jones
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Importantly, this is a completely non-exhaustive and subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy or discontent. Enjoy.
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