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  • Occupy, the 99% Spring, and the New Age of Direct Action

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2012

    Collaboration or cooptation? Expansion or dilution? Mark Engler on what to make of the 99% Spring.

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  • Obama’s Broken Resolutions

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012

    Don’t believe in the “enthusiasm gap”? Spend some time with the right-wing faithful. Then stop by a protest against Guantanamo.

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  • Iowa: Republican for a Day

    by Mark Engler January 4, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 4, 2012

    The neighborly good cheer of the caucus I attended was almost enough to make me forget, at least for a few moments, that I was sitting four rows up in …

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  • Iowa: The People’s Caucus

    by Mark Engler December 30, 2011
    by Mark Engler December 30, 2011

    As caucus craziness reaches its peak in Iowa, the Occupy movement has not been left out.

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  • The Indestructable Osprey

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2011
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2011

    Many agree that the V-22 Osprey is a major bust, so why does the government keep authorizing spending on it?

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  • Overcoming Empire Is Not for Spectators

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2011

    We cannot rely on catastrophe to save us.

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  • U.S. Military Spending Marches On

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011

    How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.

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  • Busting the Pendulum

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2010

    Building a progressive U.S. politics means looking beyond the back-and-forth swings of each election cycle.

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  • Moneyed Unexceptionalism

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2010

    The expanding rights of corporate “people” are creating an ever-greater gap between America’s democratic ideals and political reality.

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  • The Hole in America’s Middle

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2011

    The unshakable notion that everyone in the country is middle class has helped push us ever closer to a society where nobody is.

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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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  • N+1
  • The New Republic
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
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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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