Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is the author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities and seven other books, including the award-winning River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West.

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A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year

Violence against women is incessantly overlooked, both in America and elsewhere.

Fri Jan. 25, 2013 4:11 AM PST

Rebecca Solnit: 2013 Will Be Year Zero In Our Climate Battle

From climate change to class conflict—the challenges we will confront in 2013.

Mon Dec. 31, 2012 4:34 AM PST

Solnit on Hurricane Sandy: Stop Ignoring Climate Change

I wish Sandy hadn't happened. But it did, and there have been and will be more disasters like this. I hope that radical change arises from it.

Thu Nov. 8, 2012 4:03 AM PST

Solnit on Climate Change: Our Words Are Our Weapons

Why have we done almost nothing over the past 25 years about what was a terrifying threat and is now a present catastrophe? Corporate greed.

Mon Oct. 29, 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Stop Leftsplaining!

Why the left should stop grousing, whining, Eeyoring, and parsing differences with your allies and get about the cheerful business of being heroes.

Thu Sep. 27, 2012 11:04 AM PDT

Occupying Your Victories on OWS’s First Anniversary

Realism is overrated, but the fact is that the Occupy movement has already had extraordinary results.

Mon Sep. 17, 2012 5:33 PM PDT

The Problem With Men Explaining Things

Countless women are being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.

Mon Aug. 20, 2012 3:38 PM PDT

The Drug Wars: Apologies to Mexico

Who are the biggest losers in the drug wars and the war on drugs?

Tue Jul. 10, 2012 12:07 PM PDT

Why the Hunger Games Is the Perfect Science Fiction for May Day

Military recruiters, student debt, cyclical poverty: seeing ourselves in the trilogy's dystopian future.

Wed May. 2, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Are Protesters as Violent as the Media Says They Are?

Small numbers of pro-vandalism occupiers have smashed some windows and scuffled with police. But how does this compare to Wall Street's violence?

Wed Feb. 22, 2012 2:50 PM PST

Occupying Wall Street, Shipping Ports, and Hearts

The protests encircling the globe have brought the 99 percent together like never before.

Thu Dec. 22, 2011 12:38 PM PST

Occupy Wall Street: Busted Up but Still Thriving

Why evictions, arrests, and police brutality only add fuel to the OWS fire.

Tue Nov. 22, 2011 1:17 PM PST

How the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street Started With One Tunisian Man

At this moment in history, occupation should be everyone's occupation.

Tue Oct. 18, 2011 1:53 PM PDT

Burger King's CEO Apologizes to Farm Workers

A roundup of other news, both good and bad, that you probably haven't heard.

Mon Aug. 1, 2011 1:06 PM PDT

DSK, the IMF, and the Legacy of Colonialism

What makes the sex scandal so resonant is the way the alleged assailant and victim model larger relationships around the world, starting with the IMF's assault on the poor.

Mon May. 23, 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Unpacking the Earthquake Kit

What you need to survive the unexpected.

Mon Mar. 28, 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Hope and Revolution in 2011

The boiling point of water is straightforward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.

Mon Mar. 21, 2011 2:27 PM PDT

Our Economy of Kindness

What actually sustains life is far more essential than market forces and much more interesting than selfishness.

Wed Dec. 22, 2010 1:15 PM PST

Jurassic Ballot

When corporations ruled the earth.

Mon Oct. 25, 2010 12:28 PM PDT

350 Degrees of Inseparability

The good news about the very bad news (about climate change.)

Fri Apr. 23, 2010 11:55 AM PDT

When the Media Is the Disaster

In Haiti, words can kill.

Thu Jan. 21, 2010 12:01 PM PST

Earth, Too Big to Fail?

Terminator 2009: judgment days in Copenhagen.

Mon Dec. 21, 2009 11:36 AM PST

Learning How to Count to 350

Can we summon the people power of Berlin in 1989 and Seattle in 1999 to Copenhagen in 2009?

Tue Nov. 24, 2009 3:24 PM PST

How 9/11 Should Be Remembered

The extraordinary achievements of ordinary people.

Thu Sep. 10, 2009 1:31 PM PDT

Welcome to the Impossible World

Consider yourself an honorary graduate of the Internet University of hard knocks, mixed metaphors, and strange analogies.

Sun May. 14, 2006 12:00 AM PDT

Wal-Mart Values and the Company's Art Collection

The company's values are not those of its art collection.

Tue Feb. 21, 2006 1:00 AM PST

2005: Bad Year for Goliath. How About David?

Acknowledging the groups, organizations, publics, and citizenries who stood up for their rights this year

Tue Dec. 20, 2005 1:00 AM PST

Surprises of 2005 (So Far)

Surprises of 2005 (so far): From the depths of gloom strange and even wondrous possibilities emerge.

Wed Oct. 12, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

The Great Gray Whale: Or, This Story Has No Moral

On the difficulty of measuring change -- and of recognizing success.

Mon Jul. 25, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

War Visible

What we don't want to see when we look at Iraq.

July/August 2005 Issue

Acts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage

The world gets better. It also gets worse. There are probabilities and likelihoods, but there are no guarantees.

Tue Jun. 14, 2005 12:00 AM PDT

Jailbirds I Have Loved

As Thoreau's example makes plain, the civilly disobedient of one moment becomes the icon of the next.

Tue Sep. 28, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

United Colors of America

A report on our nation's pastel-alert crisis.

Thu Jul. 29, 2004 12:00 AM PDT

The Siege of the Sierra Club

Anti-immigration ideologues must not be allowed to hijack John Muir's vision.

Mon Mar. 22, 2004 1:00 AM PST