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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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/1/08
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)

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» State of Change

UN Pick Rice: Another Wrong-on-Iraq Nominee | She fell for Colin Powell's WMD fantasies, and ridiculed those who did not.
John Nichols
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» The Notion

DC to Delhi: Only Our Missiles -- Not Yours | What is Rice going to say to India: only DC not Delhi is allowed to bomb Pakistan?
Laura Flanders
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» Act Now!

World AIDS Day | How to help in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.
Peter Rothberg

» The Beat

Why Obama's Got "Complete Confidence" In Clinton | She won't bring the change his backers believed in. But Obama never really shared that belief.
John Nichols

» Editor's Cut

Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job | What we need after eight ruinous years is experience informed by good judgment.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama's New Team at State, Defense, NSC | And some comments about why John Brennan didn't get the CIA job.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Passing Through

Forget GM's Plan -- Where's The Government's Plan? | Create a demand for green cars.
Jane Hamsher

» Capitolism

Is Personnel Policy? | How much do personnel choices reflect the Obama administration's policy direction
Christopher Hayes

» And Another Thing

Election Updates --Good News and Not | Details on some ongoing stories
Katha Pollitt