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  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% Tax Proposal Is a Great Start—But We Need to Abolish the Ultra-Rich

    by Mark Engler and Andrew Elrod January 18, 2019
    by Mark Engler and Andrew Elrod January 18, 2019

    Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-wealthy is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.

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  • Remembering Pete Seeger: Patriot, Dissident, Internationalist

    by Mark Engler March 8, 2019
    by Mark Engler March 8, 2019

    If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger’s insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.

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  • Jeff Bezos Has Enough! It’s Time for a Maximum Wage.

    by Mark Engler December 14, 2018
    by Mark Engler December 14, 2018

    A Q&A with author Sam Pizzigati.

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  • There’s Still Power in a Strike

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2019
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2019

    Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America’s “strike drought,” and the future role of mass disobedience in …

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  • Making Housing a Human Right

    by Mark Engler August 6, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 6, 2018

    In cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs.

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  • The Amazon Effect: Sweat, Surveillance, Exploitation

    by Mark Engler October 25, 2018
    by Mark Engler October 25, 2018

    Company founder Jeff Bezos did not become the world’s richest man by letting employees enjoy free-range lifestyles.

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  • The Children of Intervention

    by Mark Engler September 17, 2018
    by Mark Engler September 17, 2018

    Many of the root causes of immigration from Latin America are connected with U.S. intervention abroad.

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  • In Praise of White House Dysfunction

    by Mark Engler June 6, 2018
    by Mark Engler June 6, 2018

    As it turns out, Donald Trump is not very good at running the U.S. government. The question is: should we be sad about this?

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  • Against Shithole Nationalism

    by Mark Engler April 27, 2018
    by Mark Engler April 27, 2018

    When it comes to defeating Trump’s bigoted and ignorant foreign policy, we are not up against an anomaly. We’re up against a history.

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  • How ACT UP Fought Back

    by Mark Engler September 26, 2017
    by Mark Engler September 26, 2017

    Lessons from the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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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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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