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  • The Real Populism is in the Streets

    by Mark Engler August 28, 2000
    by Mark Engler August 28, 2000

    An op-ed from the Democratic National Convention.

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  • 2006: A Global Justice Year in Review

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006

    The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

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  • Slowing the ‘Free Trade’ Bulldozer

    by Mark Engler November 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 30, 2006

    Positive signs that a new Democratic Congress is breaking with the corporate globalization agenda.

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  • Mel Gibson’s True Passion

    by Francis Engler and Mark Engler August 3, 2006
    by Francis Engler and Mark Engler August 3, 2006

    Gibson’s vulgar, anti-Semitic rant upon his arrest for drunk driving should prompt reexamination of The Passion of the Christ.

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  • Introduction to “The Republicans”

    by Mark Engler June 16, 2006
    by Mark Engler June 16, 2006

    A book of photographs by Steve Simon.

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  • American Empire Foreclosed?

    by Mark Engler April 17, 2009
    by Mark Engler April 17, 2009

    A reconsideration of U.S. power in a time of economic crisis.

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  • Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations

    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010

    Amid the disappointments of Obama’s first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers’ rights.

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Trade: B

    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010

    Why the White House agenda is incomplete, and why that’s not all bad.

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Honduras: D

    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010

    How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.

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  • Debating Obama and American Power

    by FPIF Senior Analysts March 26, 2009
    by FPIF Senior Analysts March 26, 2009

    A Foreign Policy In Focus roundtable.

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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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  • The Los Angeles Times
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  • In These Times
  • Jacobin
  • TomDispatch
  • Convergence
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  • New Internationalist
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • openDemocracy
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
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  • Yes! Magazine
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  • Chicago Reader
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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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    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
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