Rebecca Solnit is the author of 13 books, including A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disasters and Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. She is, from kindergarten to graduate school, a product of the California public education system now being decimated.
Thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
Prometheus among the cannibals.
Google eats the world.
In praise of darkness (and light).
It’s a starting point: not the tinder or the blaze but a match, a belief in possibility.
Hate crimes in America—and elsewhere—add up to the world’s longest war.
The victories of 2012 demand we double down in the fight against global warming.
If we can learn one thing from Superstorm Sandy, it's that we ignore climate change at our own peril.
It’s time to ditch the political euphemisms, and start calling lies, theft and greed by their true name.
It's time we kick the “lesser of two evils” excuse and engage in a true political conversation.
