Rebecca Solnit

Bio: Rebecca Solnit is the author of Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. She is the author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities.

Currently

  • Embracing the Obama Era

    November 8, 2008

    Citizenship is a passionate joy at times, and this is one of those times.

2007

  • The Secret Library of Hope

    December 17, 2007

    Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.

  • The Lower Ninth Battles Back

    August 23, 2007

    Community members and outside organizations are working together to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward.

2006

  • View From the Future

    December 21, 2006

    The end of oil and the rise of warming seas reveal a world made small and a horde of fallen dinosaurs.

  • Three Who Made a Revolution

    March 16, 2006

    Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan and Jane Jacobs opened vast new possibilities for social transformation by writing about widespread attacks on nature, women and the poor.

  • Alice Walton's Fig Leaf

    February 21, 2006

    Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her Arkansas museum with America's cultural treasures--a fig leaf that seeks to cover Wal-Mart's naked greed and exploitation.

2005

  • The Wonder and Horror of 2005

    December 15, 2005

    In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation on how life has changed in unexpected ways.

2003

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Blogs

» The Beat

Feingold's Outline for a Constitutional Presidency | In a letter to Obama, Constitution subcommittee chair seeks a commitment to end executive excess.
John Nichols

» State of Change

Mukasey, Elliott Abrams Get Last-Minute Bush Appointments | Abusing the transition process to take care of aides, friends and supporters
John Nichols

» Capitolism

Yes to Special Elections for Senators | Remember the 17th amendment?
Christopher Hayes

» The Dreyfuss Report

Panetta? Ummmmm... Well..... | Could Obama have made a weirder choice for CIA director? Here's why Panetta is doomed.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Act Now!

Allow Media into Gaza | Israel is encouraging abuses by preventing foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip.
Peter Rothberg

» Editor's Cut

A Trillion Dollar Recovery | We don't need a stimulus, we need a recovery. And that means investing $1 trillion over the next two years.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Notion

Hard Times Without Studs | One of Terkel’s former book editors considers a Studs-less world.
Tom Engelhardt

» And Another Thing

Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again | The Weathermen were not just a bunch of idealistic young people.
Katha Pollitt