Archive of Lisa Miller's Articles and Events

Tate-Pilled That the boys remember is not one particular meme or video, but how Andrew Tate conquered their TikTok “For You” pages seemingly overnight. Without warning last summer, the former kickboxing world champion obliterated the NyQuil-chicken recipes, the Minion mobs, the Amber Heard mockeries, and every other trending brainworm. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that if you were …

What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate’s extreme male gospel Read More

A plan to commit the homeless has little meaning in the ER. About 3,400 people sleep on the streets or subways of New York each night, and the week after Christmas, EMTs dropped off one of them, a young white woman, at a Brooklyn emergency room. She had overdosed on an assortment of meds and called 911 on herself. Now …

‘There’s No Room in the System’ Read More

Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? In July 2022, New York Magazine published “A Handgun for Christmas,” a story about Jennifer and James Crumbley, the Michigan parents charged with manslaughter after their 15-year-old son brought a gun to school and killed four of his classmates. According to a prosecutor’s brief, this …

A Handgun for Christmas Read More

AJ Subat helped scores of strangers evacuate Afghanistan. Then he became a hero, a brother — and got in way over his head. On the night of August 23, 2021, nine women, three men, and a baby stood before Immigration officials at the Dulles Expo Center in Washington, D.C., debating how to proceed. They had departed Kabul three days earlier, …

The Evacuation of Team A Read More

How Humans of New York became a one-man philanthropy machine Stanton is the creator of “Humans of New York,” the popular publication that has given him more wealth, freedom, and influence than he, a man whose dreams have always been outsize, ever imagined. Brandon Stanton was seated on a metal folding chair in the cavernous basement of an East Harlem …

Brandon Stanton’s Empire of Empathy Read More

The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. “Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video launching her …

AOC: From Adrift, Broke, and Disillusioned To The New Face of the Democratic Party Read More

What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain? Starting on April 6, a bearded and earnest neuroscientist at the University of Oregon named Philip Fisher began to send a digital questionnaire — at first weekly, and then, beginning in August, biweekly — to a representative group of a thousand American families with young children. He’s …

Children of Quarantine Read More

Faced with actual, persistent chaos, I’ve realized there was never a way to outpace danger. Michelle Obama wants to know if I have a plan to vote. The financial-services company hopes I have a plan for retirement. (“Will the world always be this unpredictable?” its paternalistic print ad asks.) My family inquires about the plan for the Thanksgiving menu, and …

My Therapists Were Right About Uncertainty Read More

I’m not sure why I imagined Ruth Bader Ginsburg would live — not forever, maybe, but long enough to protect us. Long enough to vote to preserve Joe Biden’s victory in what will surely be a contested win and assure the expulsion, finally, of the troll from the throne and the resumption of recognizable government. The complete version of the …

Why Did I Think She Wouldn’t Die? Read More