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 […]
Would Andrew Yang’s UBI Plan Actually Help Women?
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 […]
Disarming Myself: My toughness was my everything, until I fell in love.
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 […]
One Night at Mount Sinai
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 […]
Marriage: The Money Story
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 […]
Lisa Miller on The Cut on Tuesdays Podcast
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 […]
Anna Wintour Sees Progress Where Glenda Jackson Sees the Same Old Garbage
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.” […]
Andrea Mitchell Cried When She Found Out How Little She Was Being Paid
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 […]
Brittany Maynard and the Cult of the Ideal Death
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 […]
262 Minutes With Gene Robinson, The First Openly Gay Bishop
“This is really a man’s play,” observes Bishop Gene Robinson during the intermission of Kinky Boots. We are standing outside the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, and the bishop, natty in a bow tie, is smoking a Marlboro Light and slurping diet soda from a giant plastic souvenir cup. Yesterday, as we walked the High Line and […]