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Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian

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The chronicle of a fire foretold

The chronicle of a fire foretold
09.01.2025 9

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Rebecca Solnit

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men?

Women who are raped are in many countries – perhaps in most – violated and abused again by the legal system. And yet during her reckoning with...

19.12.2024 4

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Rebecca Solnit

What does it actually mean when we talk about the American ‘working class’?

In the aftermath of the election, the working class was constantly invoked and rarely defined – invoked as a badge of authenticity, as the people...

03.12.2024 20

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Rebecca Solnit

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do. Our mistake was to see the joy, the extraordinary balance between idealism and...

07.11.2024 200

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Rebecca Solnit

Some Maga men seem to think women don’t have rights – starting with their wives

This week, the fundamentalist Christian pastor Dale Partridge argued in a series of tweets that “in a Christian marriage, a wife should vote...

01.11.2024 400

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Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?

Lots of memes and tweets and posts and videos are popping up, assuring women that they can keep their votes secret from their husbands and...

31.10.2024 100

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Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian doesn’t ‘sanewash’ Trump or take orders from a billionaire owner. That’s why I’m proud to write here

The Guardian is unafraid. And it’s independent. (No billionaire bosses.) In this media climate, those qualities are as rare as they are crucial...

29.10.2024 2

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Rebecca Solnit

Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them?

There are so many ways to fiddle while Rome burns, or as this season’s weather would have it, gets torn apart by hurricanes and tornadoes and...

16.10.2024 40

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Rebecca Solnit

Hurricane Helene is a humanitarian crisis – and a climate disaster

The weather we used to have shaped the behavior of the water we used to have – how much and when it rained, how dry it got, when and how slowly...

04.10.2024 20

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Rebecca Solnit

Kamala Harris, unlike Donald Trump, was well prepared for this debate – and won

The Trump-Harris debate was the most unsurprising thing that ever happened, except maybe for the part when, unlike previous debates, the...

11.09.2024 20

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Rebecca Solnit

Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016?

The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media is that they worked hard to earn it. They’ve done so...

06.09.2024 200

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Rebecca Solnit

The Republican party remains the party of denying women human rights

The Republican party of the United States remains the party of denying women fundamental human rights. The US press as a whole remains the...

25.07.2024 100

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Rebecca Solnit

Unfortunately, gun violence – against Trump or anyone else – is all too American

“Political violence is unacceptable and has no place in this country,” said Arizona’s governor, Katie Hobbs, and “political violence has...

16.07.2024 70

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Rebecca Solnit