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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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  • A History of Nonviolence

    by Mark Engler September 13, 2006
    by Mark Engler September 13, 2006

    The author of “Cod” suggests that the world’s most dangerous idea could have derailed the American Revolution, the Civil War and possibly even World War II.

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  • Bush’s Bad Business Empire

    by Mark Engler November 3, 2005
    by Mark Engler November 3, 2005

    Making the World Unsafe for Microsoft and Mickey Mouse.

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  • Has U.S. Foreign Policy “Failed”?

    by Mark Engler July 8, 2004
    by Mark Engler July 8, 2004

    Analyzing “good faith” and “bad faith” criticisms of American actions.

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  • The War Dividend

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2008
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2008

    Will the Pentagon lock the Obama administration into ever-escalating military budgets?

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  • Obama’s Top Three Foreign Policy Priorities

    by FPIF Senior Analysts November 7, 2008
    by FPIF Senior Analysts November 7, 2008

    A Foreign Policy In Focus roundtable.

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  • Progressive Good Tidings of 2007

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2007
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2007

    Along with political challenges, the past year offered some hopeful advances—many of which came just in last few weeks.

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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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Mark’s Articles Appear In:

  • Dissent
  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
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  • Asia Times
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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
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002