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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

October 2024

  • Buildings destroyed by flooding in western North Carolina.

    Hurricane Helene is a humanitarian crisis – and a climate disaster

    Rebecca Solnit
    Behind the violence of extreme weather is that of the fossil fuel industry, and Americans are suffering for it

September 2024

  • Kamala Harris on a video screen.

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

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Donald Trump speaking at a podium.

    The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset

    Rebecca Solnit

July 2024

  • A younger white man and an older white man, both in suits, on a stage; the younger one claps, smiling, as the other one says something to him. They are surrounded by people waving campaign signs.

    The Republican party remains the party of denying women human rights

    Rebecca Solnit
    The GOP ticket of JD Vance and Donald Trump, from ‘menstrual surveillance’ to sexual assault, has made itself clear
  • A handgun for sale with a grip engraved with Donald Trump's likeness.

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

    Rebecca Solnit
    One person pulled a trigger; thousands of politicians, lobbyists, and gun industry employees made it possible to do so

    • Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?

      Rebecca Solnit

    • The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt

      Rebecca Solnit

    • The Audio Long Read
      From the archive: Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope – podcast

June 2024

  • A group of anti-fracking activists picketing in Britain.

    I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina.

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Biden acknowledges shaky debate performance and vows to stay in race: ‘when you get knocked down, you get back up’ – as it happened

  • The candidates standing at their podiums during the debate.

    The true losers of this presidential debate were the American people

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Electric candles from a vigil for nurses who died during the Covid-19 pandemic, Washington DC, January 2022.

    Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger

    Rebecca Solnit

April 2024

  • Clarence Thomas,Sonia Sotomayor,John Roberts,Samuel Alito,Elena Kagan,Amy Coney Barrett,Neil Gorsuch,Brett Kavanaugh,Ketanji Brown Jackson<br>FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

    The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement

    Rebecca Solnit
    The conservative obsession with purity and control is being achieved by increasingly punitive means

December 2023

  • Donald Trump speaks into a mic.

    A Republican commitment to inequality underscores Trump’s impunity

    Rebecca Solnit
    The January 6 insurrection will have succeeded if Trump is re-elected and he avoids accountability for the crimes of his first term

November 2023

  • planet earth

    Support the Guardian – and help us confront the climate crisis

    Rebecca Solnit
    The Guardian led the way in taking the climate crisis seriously and is still, arguably, the only outlet that truly recognizes the urgency of this moment
  • Chairman of SpaceX and X, Elon Musk.

    The great carbon divide
    Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble

    Rebecca Solnit
    The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
  • Mourners at a vigil for the victims of the deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine on 29 October 2023.

    US companies push guns as blithely and murderously as they once did tobacco

    Rebecca Solnit
    Guns are used so often in suicide that if the left were associated with lax gun laws, the right might accuse liberals of conspiring to kill white men

October 2023

  • black and white picture of Dianne Feinstein

    Dianne Feinstein should be remembered for her full range of positions: good and bad

    Rebecca Solnit
    The senator was sometimes brave and ahead of her time, and sometimes stifled by the desire to not make waves

September 2023

  • A close-up image of Russell Brand

    Russell Brand is a familiar story

    Rebecca Solnit
    Can we really be surprised when rich and powerful men are accused of sexual abuse?

July 2023

  • Extinction Rebellion COP 28 protest in London, UK - 12 Jun 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (13962589o) Climate activists hold an anti-fossil fuels banner during the protest outside Standard Chartered offices. Extinction Rebellion staged a demonstration in the City of London, the capital's financial district, in protest against oil companies taking over COP 28, in support of climate justice, and in protest against fossil fuel financing. Extinction Rebellion COP 28 protest in London, UK - 12 Jun 2023

    We can’t afford to be climate doomers

    Rebecca Solnit
    It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win
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