Rebecca Traister began her journalism career at The New York Observer in 2000, hired as a fact-checker and entry-level reporter under the editorship of Peter Kaplan. Her time at the Observer sharpened the incisive, deeply reported style that has since made her one of the most influential voices on feminism and politics, writing for New York magazine, The Cut, and Elle, and authoring books like Big Girls Don’t Cry and Good and Mad.