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My Therapists Were Right About Uncertainty

November 3, 2020 By Lisa Miller

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 […]

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Our Way of Holding You

April 24, 2020 By Lisa Miller

A Brooklyn rabbi on what it’s like to officiate a funeral over Zoom. Two weeks ago, Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York (where I am a member), performed her first virtual burial service. A member of her congregation had died at home of COVID-19, and because they were quarantined, his […]

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Would Andrew Yang’s UBI Plan Actually Help Women?

February 11, 2020 By Lisa Miller

Andrew Yang, tech entrepreneur and political newbie, has always been a long-shot Democratic presidential nominee. Yet, against all odds, he has outlasted 17 other candidates and is headed to the New Hampshire primary with money in the bank and a coveted spot on the most recent debate stage under his belt. He has garnered attention […]

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Disarming Myself: My toughness was my everything, until I fell in love.

December 11, 2019 By Lisa Miller

I think a lot, in retrospect, on the value I have always placed on toughness. Why has it mattered so much that I come across, at all times, as resilient, tireless, unfazed, game? One of my closest friends from college was called “Fiercy” as a child: When I met her, she was walking around the […]

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One Night at Mount Sinai

October 15, 2019 By Lisa Miller

Aja Newman went to the emergency room for shoulder pain. Her doctor was a superstar. What’s the worst that could happen? Sometime after 2 a.m. on January 12, 2016, Aja Newman roused herself from her hospital gurney and made her way down the long hallway to the bathroom. She had checked in at Mount Sinai’s […]

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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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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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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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Brittany Maynard and the Cult of the Ideal Death

November 6, 2014 By Lisa Miller

Brittany Maynard was just 29 on November 1, the day she took the prescription medicine that ended her life and cut short what promised to be an ugly battle with brain cancer. In the weeks leading up to that date, she had become an advocate for the right to suicide in the face of terminal […]

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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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