Stories by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is the author of 'Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities'.
Can a hedge-fund island lose its shirt and gain its soul?
Posted on Feb 10, 2009
Getting to the bottom of criminal and racist that acts were no secret in New Orleans -- yet never became part of the official story.
Posted on Dec 22, 2008
Facts didn't get in their way.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008
Answering that requires digging into American race and class wars, and into the broad crises of environmentalism.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008
Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.
Posted on Jan 2, 2008
As the energy crisis heats up, you may need a refresher on the evidence against nukes.
Posted on Jul 25, 2007
While many of the big stories in 2006 were bad news, there were hundreds of activist successes in 2006 that permanently changed the world.
Posted on Dec 29, 2006
A view of our recent past from the distant future -- from the death of the Republican party to the Latin Americna renaissance.
Posted on Dec 23, 2006
The Walton billionaires hope their new museum will connect them to high culture and history -- ideals a long way from the soulless box of a Wal-Mart store.
Posted on Feb 23, 2006
The torture, the poor, the scandals and the spying: was 2005 the moment when the world's last standing superpower began to totter?
Posted on Dec 23, 2005
Looking back on the big changes of this year -- anti-war protests, hurricanes and more -- one wonders where we'll be a year from now.
Posted on Oct 17, 2005
The author of
Hope in the Dark explores the misleading 'victory' of debt relief for the poorest countries, as promised at Scotland's G8 summit.
Posted on Jul 26, 2005
By taking the qualities that are supposed to render them irrelevant and using them strategically, women have been slowly but surely changing the world.
Posted on Jun 9, 2005
Adam Hochschild's new book is both a gripping history of a particular movement and a magnificent portrait of how activism works.
Posted on Feb 15, 2005
It may be strange to weigh two recent incidents – Susan Sontag's death and the Asian tsunamis – against each other. But Sontag's comments allow us to examine the terms in which news and images are delivered to us.
Posted on Jan 4, 2005
A widening of the lenses through which we've been taking in our post-election world might remind us that elsewhere on this modest planet people are at work on futures imagined quite differently from the grim ones the Bush administration offers.
Posted on Dec 24, 2004
Rights are like muscles, they disappear if you don't use them.
Posted on Sep 29, 2004
Nevada has a gold rush, a water war, vast military operations, just for starters, and all of them are ecological bad news.
Posted on Aug 11, 2004
Must we be a primary-color nation? Wouldn't a little lilac make us feel better about terror alerts? Perhaps some aubergine-chartreuse?
Posted on Jul 28, 2004
Relearning the past -- specifically the genocidal history of the Americas -- has spurred a surge of indigenous power that has transformed the face of politics in many Latin American states.
Posted on Jun 15, 2004
Anti-immigration racists are hiding behind a mask of concern for the environment.
Posted on Mar 12, 2004
What went down in Miami was a dramatic example of how hallowed American rights are being dismantled in the name of the war on terrorism.
Posted on Nov 26, 2003
We consumers live in silence. What cheers me are the ways people are learning to read the silent histories of objects and choosing the objects that still sing.
Posted on Jul 21, 2003
While the antiwar movement didn't prevent Bush's war on Iraq, it made tremendous headway in globalizing resistance to future wars.
Posted on May 20, 2003
