👤 Rebecca Solnit

1 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
1
2026-10-03 – 2026-10-03
Claims per article
33
33 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
6,155
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Crime & Law
100%
Most-tagged topics
CornellCornell UniversityGreekJohns Hopkins UniversityTitle IX

Leaning

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1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.34 (leans left).

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2026-10-03 · The Guardian · Crime & Law
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
29 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left

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2026-10-03 · The Guardian
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
🔮 For feminists who focus on violence against women or anyone who has ever cared about campus rape, the claims made in Jane Doe’s civil lawsuit against the alleged perpetrators may be unusual in its severity – but we know the statistics that show that somewhere between 20% and 25% of women college students will be the victim of a sexual assault (no statistics tell us what percentage of men students will be rapists). This makes the public outcry to punish seven male students miss the point, which is that there are tens of thousands of campus rape stories, few of which make the news. assertive
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