Alexis Grenell

Alexis Grenell is a political strategist and writes about gender and power. Her work has appeared in the Daily News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, New York Post, and El Diario.

RETRO SHOCK

A Century After We Got the Vote, WTF?

The hard-won gains of generations of suffragists and feminists are eroding in the midst of the pandemic, and at stake in this year’s election.

Alexis Grenell

‘2015 EYES’

Manhattan DA Got Weinstein but He’s Still Letting Women Down

The prosecutor who says in 2020 that “rape is rape and sexual assault is sexual assault,” signed a memo on behalf of NY's DAs in 2013 opposing a bill that would’ve made that so.

Alexis Grenell

PINK TAX

How the Politics of Personal Care Keep Punishing Women

Federal law still allows women to be charged more for the same services. And when those women are on the left, they get smeared as hypocrites for paying what the market demands.

Alexis Grenell