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Mark Engler blogs for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent Magazine. Click here for his author page at the magazine.

  • It’s going to take multiple strategies to win under Trump 2.0

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 31, 2025
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 31, 2025

    Social movement ecology can help groups with different organizing traditions work together to pursue change in a time of hostile government.

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  • George Takei’s Social Media Activism

    by Mark Engler April 2, 2013
    by Mark Engler April 2, 2013

    The actor’s distinctive combination of politics and meme silliness is a pleasure worth indulging.

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  • Boy Scouts Set to Cave on Gay Rights

    by Mark Engler January 31, 2013
    by Mark Engler January 31, 2013

    Accepting change became the less painful option for Boy Scout leaders. And the result is a small but significant stride toward justice.

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  • After the Election: Time to Stop Settling for the Lesser Evil

    by Mark Engler November 9, 2012
    by Mark Engler November 9, 2012

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

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  • The Politics of Your Summer Vacation

    by Mark Engler July 12, 2012
    by Mark Engler July 12, 2012

    Working people are under pressure to buckle down and skip “luxuries” like sick days, vacation, and even lunch breaks.

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  • Why Couldn’t the Left Prevail in Mexico?

    by Mark Engler July 6, 2012
    by Mark Engler July 6, 2012

    A victory by the PRI was a setback for insurgent parties.

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  • President Obama: Corporate Globalizer

    by Mark Engler June 28, 2012
    by Mark Engler June 28, 2012

    The administration is wrong to promote so-called “free-trade” deals.

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  • The Unstoppable DREAMers

    by Mark Engler June 20, 2012
    by Mark Engler June 20, 2012

    Young activists score major win by forcing White House action.

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  • Quebec’s Student Revolt Goes Viral

    by Mark Engler May 29, 2012
    by Mark Engler May 29, 2012

    It took some 100 days of massive, concerted protest before the student strike in Québec finally started getting traction in the U.S. media.

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  • The Politics of TED

    by Mark Engler May 21, 2012
    by Mark Engler May 21, 2012

    Is the topic of income inequality “Too Hot for TED“?

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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:

  • Dissent
  • 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
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