Rebecca Solnit: Our First Black Woman President Is Here
The Ascendancy of Kamala Harris to the White House is More Radical Than We Think
November 6, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
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Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty-five books on feminism, western and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. Her books include this year’s No Straight Road Takes You There, as well as Orwell's Roses, Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the Guardian and serves on the boards of the climate groups Oil Change International and Third Act.
Rebecca Solnit on Black Swans, Slim Chances, and the 2020 Presidential Election
"The tricky thing about hope is to not confuse it with optimism."
October 15, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit on Twitter Conspiracies, QAnon, and the Case of the
Two-Faced Mailboxes
"An honest photograph can be turned into almost anything by a misleading caption."
August 19, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Chrome-Plated Pistols and Pink Polos: The Face of Elite Panic in the USA
Rebecca Solnit on Plutocracy and Its Paranoias
July 1, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: The Slow Road to Sudden Change
On the Decades of Activism That Leads to Historic Change
June 17, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Masculinity As Radical Selfishness: Rebecca Solnit on the Maskless Men of the Pandemic
The Burden of Care Falls Ever More to Women
May 29, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Remembering Michael McClure, Poet, Teacher, Friend
Rebecca Solnit on an Icon of West Coast Poetry
May 8, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends
Finding Communion in the Fairy Tales We Tell
April 23, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
The Storykiller and His Sentence: Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein
“To be a woman is to be forever vigilant against violence.”
March 12, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Letter to a Young Climate Activist on the First Day of the New Decade
Rebecca Solnit on Finding Hope and Resolve for the Future
January 1, 2020
By Rebecca Solnit
Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime?
Rebecca Solnit on the Self-Importance (and Self-Pity!) of the Very Rich
November 6, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: Life Under the First Thousand Days of Donald Trump
When We Talk About "Surviving," Who is "We"?
October 17, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Anyone But the People: Rebecca Solnit on the Party of Trump’s Attack on Democracy
From Voter Suppression to Courting Foreign Interference
October 11, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens
“If you think you’re woke, it’s because someone woke you up."
September 3, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
"Truth is whatever the powerful want it to be."
July 10, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: How Internet Insinuation Becomes Campaign Fact
On the Curious Case of Elizabeth Warren and the "Charter School Lobbyist" Who Wasn't
June 6, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit on Setting Cinderella Free for Contemporary Readers
A Classic Fairytale Rebuilt as a Working Class Liberation Story
May 7, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: Unconscious Bias is Running for President
On Elizabeth Warren and the False Problem of "Likeability"
April 30, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero
is the Problem
On Robert Mueller, Greta Thunberg, and Finding Strength in Numbers
April 2, 2019
By Rebecca Solnit
They Don’t Want to Know: Rebecca Solnit on Brett Kavanaugh and the Denial of Old White Men
"There are so many witnesses. Their statements add up."
September 28, 2018
By Rebecca Solnit
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