Marc Jampole: Hiding the truth
For decades, the news media have been ignoring research that disproves their cherished myths.
Rebecca Solnit: Welcome to the US, Greta. With Your Help We Can Save the Planet and Ourselves
Even in such a divided and troubled country, there is hope. Between us we can beat the climate destroyers.
Rebecca Gordon: From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh
If we were sometimes silly, we were also wise enough to know that understanding and taking control of our bodies was a first step to taking control of our lives.
Mark Kramer: Walking, and Thoughts Along The Way
In the 2010 indie film The Way, the actor Emilio Estevez says to the actor Martin Sheen, who’s both Estevez’s on-screen and real-life father: “You don’t choose a life, Dad. … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Hope in Dark Times
This has been a truly remarkable decade for movement-building, social change, and deep, profound shifts in ideas, perspective, and frameworks for broad parts of the population (and, of course, backlashes … Continue reading
30 Great Quotations from Rebecca Solnit on Walking
“[In Pride and Prejudice] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
The Climate for 2015 It was the most thrilling bureaucratic document I’ve ever seen for just one reason: it was dated the 21st day of the month of Thermidor in … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Anywhere But Here
Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street “Oh my God, I’m in hell,” I cried out when the car that had rolled for hours through the luscious … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Feminism — The Men Arrive!
(Hooray! Uh-Oh!) What do the prime minister of India, retired National Football League punter Chris Kluwe, and superstar comedian Aziz Ansari have in common? It’s not that they’ve all walked … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises
Change in a Time of Climate Change There have undoubtedly been stable periods in human history, but you and your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents never lived through one, and neither … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
I still don’t know why Sallie and I bothered to go to that party in the forest slope above Aspen. The people were all older than us and dull in … Continue reading
