How the must-have hipster vessel of DIY authenticity also became a foreboding signal of the economy. — Late this summer, after the pandemic turned everyone into an amateur gardener and home cook, a frenzy erupted on Facebook. Food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson first spotted it while perusing a private Facebook group called Recipes of North Dakota — everyone was talking about mason jars. “For many of them…

The weirdness of dating as a young feminist woman in America — “Dating is super weird,” Amelia*, a 25-year-old Barnard College graduate who’s partial to the phrase “men are trash,” tells me. …

The short answer is no, but all hope is not lost — That quote attributed to Andy Warhol — “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” — may be true. But in the internet age, it should come with the caveat that you’ll have to pay for it with at least 15 minutes of hell. Forty percent of U.S…

Trusting myself enough to drive after 20 years away from the wheel — When I was in high school, I had a car. It was a Chrysler New Yorker, a responsible four-door sedan with a hint of sparkle to its exterior, as if it had been glazed in brown sugar and left to bake in the sun. (I’d really wanted my dad’s red…