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<title><![CDATA[Rebecca Solnit - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15857.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Rebecca Solnit]]></description><category domain="15857">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Cornell Case Shows We Live in a Rape-Prone Society]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/03/cornell-rape-case-male-supremacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Paris Climate Treaty Changed the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/paris-climate-treaty-anniversary</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Is Lying About the Threat From Antifa]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-right-is-lying-about-left-wing-violence/ar-AA1OBWlc</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'antifa'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Will Be Resisted. We Will Not Be Silent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/02/resistance-trump-administration</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But it's important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Helene a Humanitarian Crisis - and a Climate Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/hurricane-helene-humanitarian-crisis-climate-disaster</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Behind the violence of extreme weather is that of the fossil fuel industry, and Americans are suffering for it]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is the Media So Desperate To Push Biden Out?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, Biden had a bad debate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Has Dismantled Our Rights. Now We Must Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/02/us-supreme-court-civil-rights-voting-fight</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The court is part of a gang of reactionaries clawing back rights we already won, which means we can win them back]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abortion Is a Bread-and-Butter Economic Issue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/abortion-women-inequality-dobbs-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Parenthood, criminality or death: these are now the all-too-expensive options for many women in the wake of the Dobbs decision'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rightwingers Will Never Win the War Against Progress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/20/rightwingers-us-social-change-coming</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While their fear and dismay is often regarded as rooted in delusion, rightwingers are correct that the world is metamorphosing into something new and, to them, abhorrent. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re likewise correct that what version of history we tell matters. The history we tell today lays the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Says Election Was a Loss for Dems. It Wasn't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-does-the-media-keep-saying-this-election-was-a-loss-for-democrats-it-wasnt/ar-AAQo48D</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pretty much anything that happens to the Democrats is a sign that they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re weak and losing and should be worried, according to the storylines into which mainstream media tends to stuff news. Pretty much nothing, including losing, seems to signify that the Republicans are losers. In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Turning Point Is Right Here, Right Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/12/our-climate-change-turning-point-is-right-here-right-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Dream Candidate Exists--Her Name Is Warren]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/31/2020-dream-candidate-elizabeth-warren-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She's overcome misogyny, billionaires' wrath, and media smears to get to the front of the race, and she brings a special brand of Big Structural Mom Energy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Defeat Anti-Abortion Laws, We Must Fight the Lies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/03/lies-anti-abortion-laws-rebecca-solnit</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A wave of new laws banning and restricting abortion could not have been passed without misleading the public about what abortion actually is]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget the Border--the Real Threat Is Inside the House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/01/forget-trumps-border-distraction-the-real-threat-is-inside-the-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the government was shut down over the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wall, native-born white men proved, once again, to be America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest terrorist danger]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Stop Blaming Women for the Sins of Men]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/brett-kavanaugh-blame-women-anita-hill-cosby-weinstein</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Anita Hill to the victims of Cosby and Weinstein, women are disbelieved, powerful men excused. When will we learn?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Feminists Have Slowly Shifted Power. No Going Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/08/feminists-power-metoo-timesup-rebecca-solnit</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[his International Women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Day comes five months after the revelations about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Harvey Weinstein'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s long campaign of misogynist punishments of women first broke, and with them more things broke. Excuses broke. Silence was broken. The respectable appearance of a lot of institutions...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let the Alt-Right Hijack #MeToo for Their Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/dont-let-alt-right-coopt-metoo-agenda</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Resistance Can Deal the Final Blow to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/resistance-victories-trump-mounting-final-blow</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reality of Our Changing Climate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/176520/our-house-fire-reality-our-changing-climate</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last week, in the lobby of a particularly unglamorous downtown San Francisco building, a group of passionate but polite activists met with a bureaucrat who stepped forward to hear what they had to say about the fate of the Earth. The activists wanted to save the world. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina at Five]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/154168/reconstructing-story-storm-hurricane-katrina-five</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rebecca Solnit</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five years later we're still coming to terms with what happened in  New Orleans on August 29, 2005, and thereafter, struggling to get the  facts straight and to figure out what it said about race, disaster and  even human nature. How we remember Hurricane Katrina is also how we'll ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Embracing the Obama Era]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081124/solnit</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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