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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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  • 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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  • When “America First” is a Corporate Scam

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2018
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2018

    Trump’s policy is a top-down nationalism for America’s rich, when what we need—both here and abroad—is an internationalism from below.

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  • There’s More Than One Way to Strike the Boss

    by Mark Engler June 27, 2018
    by Mark Engler June 27, 2018

    From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.

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  • Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Disruptor Not a Peacemaker

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 7, 2016
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 7, 2016

    Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized—even when they were effective.

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  • Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade: What’s a Radical to Eat?

    by Mark Engler May 16, 2013
    by Mark Engler May 16, 2013

    On the politics of food.

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  • Immigration Economics: An Interview with Professor Giovanni Peri

    by Mark Engler September 16, 2010
    by Mark Engler September 16, 2010

    Doesn’t supply and demand dictate that new immigrants will steal jobs and drive down wages for U.S. citizens? A leading immigration economist explains why not.

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  • War: The Wrong Jobs Program

    by Mark Engler November 17, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 17, 2011

    The real question is not whether the government should spend on job creation. It is whether the government has been spending well.

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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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  • New Internationalist
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • openDemocracy
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
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  • Rebelión
  • Yes! Magazine
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  • Christian Science Monitor
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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
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