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2017-2018

  • Down with America’s Racist Monuments

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017

    Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is.

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  • Donald Trump and the Politics of Impeachment

    by Mark Engler July 12, 2017
    by Mark Engler July 12, 2017

    We should not underestimate the US president’s talent for undermining his own job security.

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  • The Right Way to Rewrite NAFTA

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017

    What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement?

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  • Boosting the Backlash Against Trump

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017

    Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent.

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  • When Sanctuary is Resistance

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017

    In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience. Three decades later, in the era of Trump, providing sanctuary may …

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  • Obama’s Legacy Falls Short on Organizing

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2017

    Technocratic liberals treat movement groups as another “special interest” rather than a central pillar upholding their ability to govern.

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  • Trump Can Be Beaten Because He Is the Establishment

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2017

    We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege.

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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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Mark’s Articles Appear In:

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  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002