By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchJul 18, 2013
Dear Edward Snowden: Billions of us, from prime ministers to hackers, are watching a live espionage movie in which you are the protagonist and perhaps the sacrifice. Your way forward is clear to no one, least of all, I’m sure, you. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchJun 26, 2013
What do the U.S. government and Silicon Valley already have in common? Above all, they want to remain opaque while making the rest of us entirely transparent through the capture of our data. What is arising is simply a new form of government, involving vast entities with the reach and power of government and little accountability to anyone. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchJun 13, 2013
Creation is always in the dark because you can only do the work of making by not quite knowing what you’re doing. Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that’s where they may be seen by others, that’s not where they’re born. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchMay 21, 2013
If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
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At least three times a week, there is one place online where readers can go for the most comprehensive coverage possible of the workings of American Empire. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Erika Eichelberger, TomDispatchApr 18, 2013
Since the Newtown massacre, visions of crazy mass killers and armed strangers in the night have colonized the American mind. But the danger out there is both more mundane and more terrible: You're more likely to be hurt or killed by someone you know or love. And it would probably happen at home. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchJan 24, 2013
We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchDec 26, 2012
The gifts you’ve already been given in 2012 include a struggle over the fate of the earth. This is probably not what you asked for, and I wish it were otherwise -- but to do good work, to be necessary, to have something to give: These are the true gifts. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchSep 19, 2012
The one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street produced a lot of mainstream media stories that assured you Occupy was only a bunch of tents that came down last year. Don’t buy it. A year is nothing and the mainstream media is oblivious to where power lies and how change works. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchJul 13, 2012
Drugs are all anesthesia from pain. The ruthless Mexican cartels crave money, which they make from the Yankee craving for numbness. They sell unfeeling, and we buy it, at tens of billions of dollars and thousands of Mexican lives per year. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchMay 1, 2012
We have a new science fiction trilogy that’s perfect for our moment: Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games," a dystopian vision set in a North America ruled by decadent, luxurious oligarchs who sacrifice young people in an annual televised Roman-style blood contest. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchFeb 22, 2012
Occupy had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
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