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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.

  • I Just Paid More Taxes Than Most of Corporate America

    by Mark Engler April 11, 2011
    by Mark Engler April 11, 2011

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

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  • Microcredit on Trial: The Sacking of Muhammad Yunus

    by Mark Engler May 6, 2011
    by Mark Engler May 6, 2011

    Many of the criticisms of microcredit are valid and deserve to be aired, yet the effort to oust Yunus is part of an unwarranted and politically motivated attack.

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  • For Tax Day 2011, Progressives Have Stolen the Tea Party’s Momentum

    by Mark Engler April 18, 2011
    by Mark Engler April 18, 2011

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

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  • The Internet as a Tool for Repression

    by Mark Engler April 26, 2011
    by Mark Engler April 26, 2011

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

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  • Class Television: In Praise of Roseanne Barr

    by Mark Engler May 20, 2011
    by Mark Engler May 20, 2011

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

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  • A Bad Week for David Brooks

    by Mark Engler May 27, 2011
    by Mark Engler May 27, 2011

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

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  • Joan Didion on Newt Gingrich

    by Mark Engler May 16, 2011
    by Mark Engler May 16, 2011

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

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  • Economists Can Do No Wrong. Right?

    by Mark Engler June 3, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 3, 2011

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

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  • Elizabeth Warren, Capitalist Moderate

    by Mark Engler June 13, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 13, 2011

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

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  • Anti-Union Life at Target

    by Mark Engler June 22, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 22, 2011

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

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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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  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
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  • Jacobin
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
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  • Rebelión
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  • openDemocracy
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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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