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  • Should We Have a “Maximum Wage”

    by Mark Engler July 15, 2013
    by Mark Engler July 15, 2013

    Economists love to talk about incentives. In this case, such limits would motivate CEOs to augment the pay of their janitors, secretaries, and cashiers for a simple reason: Their own …

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  • Obama’s “Free Trade” Voyages: NAFTA Across the Oceans

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2013

    When it comes to the devastating affects of pro-corporate deals, Obama was right the first time.

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  • Provoking an American Climate Crisis

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2013

    The signs tell us that a climate crisis has arrived in the natural world. The question is: When will this translate into a crisis in the political world?

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  • How Many Gun Massacres More?

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013

    A radical proposal would go well beyond controlling the most aggressive semi-automatic rifles and curbing arms sales to the world’s worst dictatorships. It would also demand a change in our …

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  • A Nation of Immigrants Speaks

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2013

    With 7 out of 10 Latinos voting to re-elect Barack Obama, Republicans are debating whether to alter their hardline immigration stance.

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  • How Not to Make Every Vote Count

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2012

    Recognizing the limits of voting should not prevent us from appreciating the seriousness of an aggressive conservative campaign against the franchise.

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  • Will Occupy Live to See Another Birthday?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    On the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, #S17, our U.S. columnist says the 99 per cent could sorely use another round of rebellion.

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  • Obama: A Better Adversary

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    Progressive movements are stronger when they can take on centrists or liberals than when pitted against elected conservatives.

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  • Student Debt Crisis: It’s Time for a Jubilee

    by Mark Engler July 30, 2012
    by Mark Engler July 30, 2012

    Organizations that usually demand cancellation of debts owed by impoverished countries are now calling for debt forgiveness for a different group of borrowers: U.S. students.

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  • Keep Your Government Hands Off My Welfare State

    by Mark Engler May 12, 2012
    by Mark Engler May 12, 2012

    Ideology and reality have been set on a collision course, and this absurd mash-up is the result.

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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
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