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War Room: The teenage strategy for an anti-gun movement

March 2, 2018 By Lisa Miller

War Room: The teenage strategy sessions that built an anti-gun movement out of the trauma of Parkland in one week. In the moment, the kids looked to their phones for comfort. Sam Zeif, 18, was in Algebra 2, in the freshman building on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, when the shooting began. […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

The Gift of Loneliness A single woman’s secret to surviving the holiday season alone.

December 22, 2017 By Lisa Miller

  It is time, finally, to tell the story of “The Bag of Shame.” This happened long ago, when I was very single, living alone, and dreading Christmas. Anxiety for me is a baseline state, but the prospect of Christmas used to induce a special panic — an apprehension of extreme loneliness — together with an impulse to […]

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She Breaks Rules While Expecting Students to Follow Them

December 11, 2017 By Lisa Miller

THE EDUCATION OF EVA MOSKOWITZ A Memoir By Eva Moskowitz How would Eva Moskowitz have fared as an impudent young girl in one of her own charter schools? This is just one of the many unplumbed questions prompted by her new memoir. Founder of the extensive Success Academy charter-school chain, former New York City councilwoman, […]

Filed Under: New York Times

John Kasich Is Already Running

October 29, 2017 By Lisa Miller

For the Ohio governor, the campaign against Trump never stopped. And it won’t till 2020. One year after his failed run at president, John Kasich is plotting his path to another, his third, for 2020. You’ll remember Kasich from the last campaign, as his party caved to Donald Trump. At the Republican debates, he was […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

Lisa Discusses the New York 50th Anniversary on NY1

October 16, 2017 By Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller appears on NY1 to discuss New York magazine’s 50th anniversary issue.  

Filed Under: Appearances and Media, Video

The Ambition Collision

September 12, 2017 By Lisa Miller

  What is this midlife crisis among the 30-year-olds I know? Millennial women — at least those who reside in professional bubbles — seem to have it all. They are better educated, more prosperous, less encumbered by cultural expectations than any previous generation of women. They delay marriage (if they marry at all) and children […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

Emily Richmond Interviews Lisa for Education Writers Assn Radio

July 31, 2017 By Lisa Miller

  From EWA Radio: Lisa Miller, an associate editor at New York magazine, discusses her new profile of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Miller discusses the unwillingness of people close to DeVos to discuss her on the record — including current Department of Education employees — made this one of the most challenging profiles […]

Filed Under: Audio

Who Is Betsy DeVos? And how did she get to be head of our schools?

July 24, 2017 By Lisa Miller

Betsy DeVos used to have more friends. Way back in 2016, a coalition of reputable, fair-minded education reformers — some of them Democrats — got together to vouch for her. Sure, she was inexperienced in the policy realm. Also, an outsider to Washington. Also, naïve to the demands of living under the internet’s ever-watchful eye. […]

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I Married the Perfect Man for the Apocalypse

July 21, 2017 By Lisa Miller

A husband, I’ve learned, can’t be everything. You have to choose the human qualities that matter most — to you — and trust your gut, and go with that. This is much harder, even, than it sounds, because in the 21st century a woman is encouraged to display herself, kalaidescopically, as contradictory things, a kitten […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

Can Trump Actually Bring Jobs Back to Ford?

May 17, 2017 By Lisa Miller

The 10,000 residents of Flat Rock, Michigan, are cheerful lately — you might even say optimistic. Fifteen new businesses have opened in the past year, including Blue Heron Trading Company, a candle-scented gift shop selling local jams and jellies, and a Burger King franchise directly across the street from the Ford Motor Company assembly plant, […]

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About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

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