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Lisa Discussing Fieldston School’s Racism Experiment on Morning Joe
Lisa appears on Morning Joe to discuss her New York magazine cover story on Fieldston School’s racial affinity groups.
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Best in Show: Lisa’s Keynote Interview at SXSW
On Sunday, March 15, Lisa interviewed Martine Rothblatt in the SXSW keynote session, AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves. The interview proved to be incredibly successful and Rothblatt was awarded the coveted “SXSW Speaker of the Event Award.” […]
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Alas, I Will Never Actually De-Clutter My House
In the past couple weeks, I have found my mind circling back, again and again, to an article I read in this magazine, about a Japanese tidying guru named Marie Kondo. Her idea, in a nutshell, is this: People should […]
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If You Aren’t My Child, Don’t Call Me Mom.
What is it about the word “mom”? It makes me want to choke. Not when I hear it in my own house, uttered by my own child, in reference to me. In that case I love it — heedlessly, actually, […]
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Obama’s Right-Wing Feminist Critics
It’s been five years since Sarah Palin appropriated the feminist label, inserting her own brand of womanhood — the gun-toting, abortion-rights-defying, libertarian kind — into the larger women’s movement, infuriating its leaders on the left. And earlier this week, legions […]
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Divisiveness Is the Only Constant in America’s Gun-Control Debate
Over at The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has written a rather unhinged meditation on the prospects for gun control — on the “moral work” of pushing new gun laws, and presumably the moral complacency of those who fail to see a way to […]
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Divisiveness Is the Only Constant in America’s Gun-Control Debate
Over at The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has written a rather unhinged meditation on the prospects for gun control — on the “moral work” of pushing new gun laws, and presumably the moral complacency of those who fail to see […]
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Powerful Women and Their ‘Uniforms’: What I’ve Learned
Sometimes I count the ways in which I am blessed, and one of them is that I get to wear jeans and a T-shirt to the office. I’m a writer, not a member of Congress, so the bar is low […]
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The Season for Social-Media Self-Loathing
One of the funniest items to wash up on the shores of my social-media beaches over the last week was the case of Bridget and her hostile Christmas cards. “Bridget,” one of four sisters, used to appear regularly on her […]
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Stop Blaming Women for Holding Themselves Back at Work
“We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.” So wrote Sheryl Sandberg in the book that has become an odd […]