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  • Is Rambo Still A Republican?

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2004

    Lessons from late-Cold War cinema for the post-9/11 era.

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  • On the Price is Right

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2001
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2001

    A journey into Television City.

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  • The Last Porto Alegre

    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005
    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005

    Assessing the state of the World Social Forum after five years.

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  • Six Essays About War and About Peace

    by Mark Engler May 6, 2004
    by Mark Engler May 6, 2004

    A series of post-9/11 reflections.

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  • Republicans Among Us

    by Mark Engler September 3, 2004
    by Mark Engler September 3, 2004

    A week in review from the Republican National Convention, inside and out.

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  • New York Says “No”

    by Mark Engler August 28, 2004
    by Mark Engler August 28, 2004

    Why the city will—and should—demonstrate against the Republican Convention.

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  • The Sideshow Rebels

    by Mark Engler September 5, 2002
    by Mark Engler September 5, 2002

    A review of Sideshow, USA by Rachel Adams and Jay’s Journal of Anomalies by Ricky Jay.

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  • A Week in New York

    by Mark Engler September 17, 2001
    by Mark Engler September 17, 2001

    The experience, and the politics, of living in the aftermath of terror.

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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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  • Asia Times
  • Sierra Magazine
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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