Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

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There's another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year

While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency...

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

1000 02.04.2021

Women are harmed every day by invisible men

When men harm women, we obscure their role. Instead, we blame women for the injustice that happens to them

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

950 19.03.2021

The Trump era wasn't all bad. We saw progress – thanks to social movements

Looking back over the past four years, there wasn’t just rightwing repression. Movements flourished – and won important battles

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

300 23.01.2021

Call it what it was: a coup attempt

I call it a coup attempt because, though I assume that it will not prevent the Biden presidency, it certainly intended to

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

10500 07.01.2021

Republicans are standing up to Trump. Unfortunately, it's too little, too late

Republicans like Gabriel Sterling – who are horrified by the torrent of death threats facing electoral workers – are voicing their outrage very...

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

850 04.12.2020

Victory is only the prelude. What happens now is up to us

We all have a role to play in persuading this administration to have more courage, go further and live up to its promises

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

300 09.11.2020

Trump's response to the pandemic has always been dishonest and cruel

The contemporary right has one central principle: rejecting any responsibility for others in the hollow name of freedom

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

550 08.10.2020

Climate change, Covid – our hearts ache. But a new era is possible. We can do it

I understand the temptation to feel that what is wrong now will be wrong forever. But anguish and hope can coexist

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

750 19.09.2020

California's dark, orange sky is the most unnerving sight I've ever woken up to

What is happening now is astonishingly worse than any previous fire season. We are in a new kind of era

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

1000 10.09.2020

David Graeber pushed us to imagine greater human possibilities

The anthropologist, who died last week, had cheerful, insurrectionary verve as a scholar and direct-action activist, says Guardian US columnist...

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

550 08.09.2020

Trans women pose no threat to cis women, but we pose a threat to them if we make them outcasts

Growing up in San Francisco, the loudest, proudest queer town around made it clear to me that gender was what you made of it

Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

400 10.08.2020