The Latest Breaking News from Rebecca Solnit

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum exhibition, it is part serious memorialisation, part entertainment, and part invitation to play.

Tech giants said today’s digital native kids would be the first generation who would not know what it meant to get lost. But is that a good thing?

Liberal "elites" are too mean to their MAGA fellow citizens, argues David Brooks. Jeepers, not that argument again

The world still has “multiple, feasible and effective options” to avoid the worst consequences of climate breakdown, according to a landmark new report. 

Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based satirical artist with a history of taking on surprising leadership positions in real life and on stage. Her latest solo show is Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord.

Like all abusive men, dictators seek to control who can speak and which narratives are believed. The only difference is scale, says the US writer Rebecca Solnit

The key context of the word inspired by my 2008 essay is that mansplaining is one part of a huge problem – of who gets listened to, and who gets believed, says writer Rebecca Solnit

Exclusive: US research using actors and volunteers finds women have negative outcomes but men are less affected

Since the term “mansplaining” has entered the cultural zeitgeist as a social media phenomenon and hashtag, its popularity and usage has only skyrocketed. In just six months between November 2016 and April 2017, for example, it was mentioned at least 10,000 unique times on Twitter.