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Measles for the One Percent

May 29, 2019 By Lisa Miller

On an unseasonably chilly morning in May, three dozen or so plaintiff-parents, most of them from the Green Meadow Waldorf School, showed up at the Rockland County Courthouse, looking, in their draped layers and comfortable shoes, like any PTA from Park Slope or Berkeley.

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68 Minutes With David Brooks The conservative columnist takes a look inside his soul. But what does he see?

April 29, 2019 By Lisa Miller

It was 2013,and David Brooks was in the wilderness. Not the literal desert or jungle or anything like that, but the emotional wilderness of an accomplished man who, in midlife, has discovered a deep emptiness at his core. His marriage of 27 years was falling apart. The genteel conservatism in which he was nurtured and […]

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The Wife Who Wonders How the Empty Nest Will Remake Her Marriage

April 3, 2019 By Lisa Miller

Even before she was born, our daughter was our priority. My husband and I married late in our lives, propelled toward each other largely by a mutual urge to procreate, and we saw in the other the qualities necessary for raising a child: stamina, humor, intelligence, kindness, good health, a durable beauty. We hurled ourselves […]

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Marriage: The Money Story

March 19, 2019 By Lisa Miller

Marriage has a profound effect on the financial lives of women. And the financial lives of women have a profound effect on their marriages. Why publish a long-form financial investigation about heterosexual marriage? Well, there’s a wealth of available data that proves it’s one of the most-studied social phenomena. And because its effects are surprising […]

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Women Battling Their Hormones Are Demanding to Be Heard

February 13, 2019 By Lisa Miller

The first reaction I received was from a friend. We are not intimate — I did not know that she has struggled with major depression all her life — but her text was emphatic. It was just before Christmas, and she had written to say that she had immediately forwarded my New York Magazine cover […]

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Lisa Miller on The Cut on Tuesdays Podcast

February 5, 2019 By Lisa Miller

The Cut on Tuesday’s podcast revisits Lisa Miller’s cover story about the links between menopause and schizophrenia. Lisa tells us how the story came to be — and why she got more invested in it than she ever expected to. And we hear from some of the women who told Lisa about what they went […]

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Listening to Estrogen

December 21, 2018 By Lisa Miller

Hormones have always been a third rail in female mental health. They may also be a skeleton key. When she was 45, at around the same time her menstrual periods became irregular, Janet developed an obsession with a man at work. Now 61, Janet has the same job she had back then, managing the chemistry-department […]

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Marjorie Dannenfelser Used Donald Trump to Get Even Closer to What She Wants: No More Abortions

October 15, 2018 By Lisa Miller

Marjorie Dannenfelser President: Pro-life group the Susan B. Anthony List Raised in: Greenville, North Carolina Calls Trump: “The most pro-life president we’ve ever had”   Marjorie Dannenfelser cries easily, and this, she believes, is her greatest strength. She cries when she hears “American Honey,” by Lady Antebellum. She even chokes up a little when recollecting […]

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Anna Wintour Sees Progress Where Glenda Jackson Sees the Same Old Garbage

October 14, 2018 By Lisa Miller

Anna Wintour Job: Editor of Vogue, artistic director of Condé Nast Fund-raiser: For Hillary Clinton in 2016 Will Never Be Seen: Wearing all-black Glenda Jackson Job: Tony-winning actor Once: Was a British MP Currently: Rehearsing for King Lear on Broadway (she plays Lear)   Glenda Jackson: I don’t understand that. People always say, “She’s frightening.” […]

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Andrea Mitchell Cried When She Found Out How Little She Was Being Paid

October 14, 2018 By Lisa Miller

Andrea Mitchell Job: Chief foreign-affairs correspondent, NBC news; anchor, Andrea Mitchell Reports Once: Was thrown out of a photo-op for trying to question media-avoiding secretary of State Rex Tillerson Andrea Mitchell was 35 when she began covering the Reagan White House for NBC News. Now, at 71, she’s still on the front lines. Women often […]

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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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