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  • The Pan American

    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018

    The world of Eduardo Galeano.

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  • The Godfather of Microcredit

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2009
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2009

    Is Muhammad Yunus selling ”free market” neoliberalism in the guise of liberal do-gooderism?

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  • Capitalism as Catastrophe

    by Mark Engler March 31, 2008
    by Mark Engler March 31, 2008

    Does Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine hold water?

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  • Four Ways of Looking at an Aztec Eagle

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 1, 2010

    The contested legacy of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

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  • The Ascent of Niall Ferguson

    by Mark Engler March 17, 2009
    by Mark Engler March 17, 2009

    In his new “financial history of the world” a historian famous for celebrating empire turns to praise the wonders of capital.

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  • Ordinary Outrages

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2002
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2002

    A review of Political Fictions by Joan Didion.

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  • No Better Place

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2005
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2005

    The fiction of Wendell Berry.

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  • In God’s Country

    by Mark Engler August 19, 2003
    by Mark Engler August 19, 2003

    A review of Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer.

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  • When Lost Is Found

    by Mark Engler July 22, 2005
    by Mark Engler July 22, 2005

    A review of Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost.

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  • Are Humans Doomed to Destroy Themselves?

    by Mark Engler July 20, 2011
    by Mark Engler July 20, 2011

    A review of Tim Flannery’s Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet.

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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 New Republic
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  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
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  • 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