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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit was an antinuclear activist in the 1980s and 1990s, as her 1994 book Savage Dreams recounts. The author of "A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster," she is currently speaking about disaster, civil society, and utopia in programs with the Free University of New York, the San Francisco Public Library’s One City One Book program, and Cal Humanities. Her latest book, "Men Explain Things To Me," was released in May 2014.

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Rebecca Solnit: The Age of Capitalism is over

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Sheldon Adelson (AP/Wong Maye-e)

Rebecca Solnit: Las Vegas mirrors America’s decline

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Louie C.K. (Reuters/Fred Prouser)

Rebecca Solnit: Feminism needs more Louie C.K.s and Chris Kluwes

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Rebecca Solnit: The politics of pretending are killing us

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The secret to fighting male fury: Why #YesAllWomen is so important

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“There’s no going back”: Rebecca Solnit on the bright future of feminism

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The terrifying truth about our burning planet: Destruction is so much easier than change

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2013’s unexpected lesson: Hope isn’t dead

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Storm chasers get close to a tornadic thunderstorm, one of several tornadoes that touched down, in South Haven, Kansas, May 19, 2013. (© Gene Blevins / Reuters)

Why is it so hard to grasp climate change?

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Occupy turns 2 today

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Edward Snowden is a modern-day Prometheus

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin (AP/Eric Risberg/Salon)

Who will stop Google?

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There’s hope for progressivism yet

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A rape a minute, a thousand corpses a year

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Addressing global warming: Earth’s New Year’s resolution

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Today could determine the future of the planet

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Climate change: War on the poor

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Hey, left wing: Quit griping!

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Occupy isn’t over

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Must men be patronizing?

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An apology to Mexico

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U.S. Army soldiers respond after a suicide attack on the US..-led provincial reconstruction team (PRT) compound in the Behsood district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan, on Sunday, April 15, 15 2012. (AP Phot/Rahmat Gul)

America’s real Hunger Games

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Members of the Oakland Police Department arrest an Occupy Oakland demonstrator in Downtown Oakland, California January 28, 2012 (Reuters/Stephen Lam)

The truth about violence at Occupy

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An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator raises her hands painted with hearts in New York (Mike Segar / Reuters)

How 2011 became the year of compassion

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