Alexis Sobel Fitts, Jezebel

Alexis Sobel Fitts

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New York, NY, United States

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Past:
  • Jezebel
  • WIRED
  • Washingtonian
  • Columbia Journalism Review
  • onEarth Magazine
  • HuffPost

Past articles by Alexis:

Crying Cause It's Over

It’s impossible to predict what any job will be like until you’re already ensnared inside a place, but it’s safe to say that when I started at Jezebel I had some distinct ideas. Rarely do you love a place from afar and then find yourself with the chance to become part of it. By the time I joined Jezebel in 2019, I had read the site for so long, and so fervently, that I’d practically imprinted on… → Read More

Donald Trump May Be Gone, But His Legacy Will Haunt Us for Generations

The morning after his inauguration in 2017, Donald Trump phoned the National Park Service, miffed about photos of the event that were already circulating online. The aerial shots of The National Mall depicted the patchy crowd that had turned out for Trump’s swearing-in, an audience that appeared particularly slim when juxtaposed with the unprecedented mass that had assembled for Barack Obama in… → Read More

Letitia James, the Attorney General Holding Corruption to Account

There came a point in the long dark year of 2020 when it appeared that American democracy might crumble. The politicians sworn to protect and represent turned their backs and lined their coffers as a deadly virus ravaged the country. Congress bickered, the president lied, the death toll rose. The election, it seemed, might be rigged. Even the protesters who streamed into the streets over the… → Read More

We're Talking With the White Board Queen, Rep. Katie Porter, On Instagram Live at 1 p.m. EST

Congresswoman Katie Porter is known as much for her incisive flaying of people like Ben Carson and Mark Zuckerberg as her plain discussion of visionary policies. I’ll be talking with Congresswoman Porter on Instagram Live about a number of things, including her Jezebel Op-Ed. → Read More

Inventing the Myth of the White Suburban Woman Voter

In late October, the New York Times podcast The Daily gathered a group of women from the Ohio suburbs to explain in their own words why they’d soured on Donald Trump. The ambiance seemed cozy. Huddled around a fire pit in a presumably ample backyard—draped in blankets, sipping on red wine—the women told a story that might seem familiar. → Read More

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Alone Was Never Going to Save Us

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on the eve of the Jewish new year, and I learned the news as I was wondering how on earth to spend the evening. This is the first time in memory that I have spent Rosh Hashanah without family, a minor grievance in the scheme of a year filled with unquestionable sorrow. It had already seemed impossible to celebrate; at once it seemed preposterous. → Read More

Finally, Some Answers About How Stephen Miller Became a Very Powerful Monster

Stephen Miller is a conundrum: a young man, living out what appears to be a hard-worn middle age, who has amassed an incredible amount of power to spread racist policies throughout the land at just 34 years of age. Why do so many people listen to this man? Is he actually a vampire? Has his rotten heart triggered a reverse Benjamin Button aging process? But my biggest question has been somehow… → Read More

Stephen Miller's Boss Seems to Have Killed His Grandma

In the early days of the pandemic, the phrase “Grandma killers” provided a convenient shorthand for the evil Republican stooges advocating for keeping businesses open, hosting public gatherings, and generally going mask-off (heh) about their desire to forsake public health for the sake of a robust stock market. Inherent to the phrase was an implied straw-man setup: Anyone rich enough to be… → Read More

All the Shit We Bought For Our Homes Now That We're In Them All Day

Disclaimer: The editorial staff of Jezebel independently chooses each product in Shit I Bought, and every staffer has purchased said shit of their own accord, with their own money. If you purchase something using our affiliate links, G/O Media may earn a commission. Affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content. → Read More

Is Donald Trump Trying to Catch the Coronavirus to Get Out of Doing His Job?

Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally was probably only a fraction of the death-cult meet-up it might’ve been, had the president not been bested by a group of cool as hell K-Pop stans resulting in roughly a third of the expected audience showing up. But that doesn’t mean that holding a massive gathering in a closed auditorium in the middle of a pandemic wasn’t risky–especially considering that much of… → Read More

Kayleigh McEnany Somehow Suggests Confederate Generals Are Akin to Joe Biden

The worst part of Kayleigh McEnany’s tenure as White House Press Secretary isn’t having to pay attention to someone who looks and acts like an older version of my middle school bully, it’s actually that she is maddeningly good at her job. The spewing of disinformation is natural in McEnany’s hands, as she stitches together logical fallacies, straw man arguments, and wild deflections such that I… → Read More

It's Not Enough to Quit Your Job

Across the country, white people are being called on to use their power and privilege to lift up black people—by hiring them, promoting them, and in some cases actively relinquishing power. In a particularly bold reflection of this stance, Alexis Ohanian announced that he will step down from his seat on the board of Reddit, the company he founded with two other young white men in 2005. → Read More

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Appears to Have Used Wife Chirlane McCray as a Literal Human Shield

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio has never been very popular with the people who voted him into power, much to his continual confusion and chagrin. But it’s safe to say that De Blasio has never been reviled quite like he is at the moment! → Read More

The Occupation of Washington, D.C.

“We ain’t destroying our city no more, we’re taking our city back,” a protester told the Washington Post Tuesday afternoon, as he led a group towards the national mall. His comment was as if designed to pre-empt specious reports that any police aggression to come had been triggered. The group that eventually settled in front of the Lincoln Memorial spoke so quietly that an NBC newscaster gave… → Read More

I Turned to Extraction for Joyful Violence and a Sexy Chris, But Alas It Was Disturbing

There is a certain kind of action movie that I find to be deeply comforting, a category of entertainment I’ve nicknamed the “president protection plot” in my mind. Presidents, however, play a minimal role in these movies, besides hanging out and being generally benign and good and worthy of life. Instead, the film centers around a person practiced at sanctioned killing. This person, say a secret… → Read More

Welcome to the Designated Survivor Era

Sometimes a piece of art enters your life and changes the way you view the world. It’s a searing cultural critique, engineered by a masterful visionary, resulting in a complete and profound paradigm shift. → Read More

The Frivolous Dream of a Woman President

Last July, Vogue ran a set of profiles of the women running for president, a package that was accompanied by a group photo. Shot by Annie Leibovitz, the image was clearly intended to be iconic. The politicians, dressed in suit jackets and sheath dresses, appeared to be breaking momentarily from their busy lives and perhaps a vote for some press. Four senators—Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand,… → Read More

The One With Bloomberg—Yet Another Democratic Debate Liveblog

How many debates is too many? In 2015 the Democratic National Committee concluded six to be a “reasonable number,” enough to give candidates ample airing without diverting from the party’s bylaws. Yet there’s nothing reasonable about this year’s all-out Democratic brawl, egged on by a constant drumbeat of debates, which have now ballooned to 12; six are crammed in the first quarter of 2020. All… → Read More

Extremely Competent Man Tasked With Important Editorship

Every fall cold, crisp winds billow through the streets of lower Manhattan, signaling the beginning of a new season that has not yet been formally named The Condé Nast Culling Time. It’s a moment when media executives at the formerly lucrative publisher begin to panic, shuddering at the thought of presenting yet another red Q4. So they begin a see-saw cycle of cuts and padding: trimming away any… → Read More

We're Halfway There! This Is Your Sixth Democratic Debate Liveblog

It’s fitting that we almost didn’t make it to this night, the midpoint in the interminable slog of Democratic debates, yet Loyola Marymount University has settled their labor dispute and no will will be crossing any picket lines to assemble in Los Angeles for yet another primary death match. We’ll watch a deeply preened crop of candidates—only seven have qualified for tonight’s debate, co-hosted… → Read More