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2009-2010

  • Using the Tea Party to Split the Right

    by Mark Engler August 6, 2010
    by Mark Engler August 6, 2010

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Have You Gotten Rich Yet as a Microlender?

    by Mark Engler August 13, 2010
    by Mark Engler August 13, 2010

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Should the Left Oppose Kagan for Supreme Court?

    by Mark Engler May 17, 2010
    by Mark Engler May 17, 2010

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • American Empire Foreclosed?

    by Mark Engler April 17, 2009
    by Mark Engler April 17, 2009

    A reconsideration of U.S. power in a time of economic crisis.

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  • The Robber Barons of Social Change

    by Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips February 25, 2010

    Should advocates of progressive transformation adopt market values and business know-how? (A review of Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World by Michael Edwards.)

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  • Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations

    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010

    Amid the disappointments of Obama’s first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers’ rights.

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  • Heating Up Climate Action

    by Mark Engler January 10, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 10, 2010

    This fall is becoming a breakthrough season for the emerging social movement for climate justice.

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Trade: B

    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010

    Why the White House agenda is incomplete, and why that’s not all bad.

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  • A Utopia of Caring

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009

    Rebecca Solnit explores how our responses to disasters can point the way to a better society. (A review of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in …

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Honduras: D

    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010

    How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.

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The Author

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
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    • 2019-2020
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    • 2015-2016
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