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  • Does It Make Sense to Protest a President Who Is Not Persuadable?

    by Mark Engler October 15, 2019
    by Mark Engler October 15, 2019

    Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

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  • Lessons from the Pledge of Resistance

    by Mark Engler July 15, 2019
    by Mark Engler July 15, 2019

    Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.

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  • Is Rambo Still A Republican?

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2004

    Lessons from late-Cold War cinema for the post-9/11 era.

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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 Ascent of Niall Ferguson

    by Mark Engler March 17, 2009
    by Mark Engler March 17, 2009

    In his new “financial history of the world” a historian famous for celebrating empire turns to praise the wonders of capital.

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  • Those Who Don’t Count

    by Mark Engler May 9, 2003
    by Mark Engler May 9, 2003

    Why it matters to remember the Iraq War’s civilian victims.

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  • Six Essays About War and About Peace

    by Mark Engler May 6, 2004
    by Mark Engler May 6, 2004

    A series of post-9/11 reflections.

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  • The Dangerous Dignity of War

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2017

    Why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.

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  • #VetsVsHate—and Trump

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2016

    ‘It’s part of a long and disturbing pattern of Donald Trump using veterans as a political prop, both for his own self-advantage and to advance an agenda of bigotry and …

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  • How to Militarize Your Local Police

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014

    The use of militarized police squadrons has long been an escalating and racially loaded trend.

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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
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