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Jeff Bezos Has Enough!

Mark Engler ▪ December 14, 2018

Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States?

No More Miss America: A Collective Memory of Liberatory Action

Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler ▪ September 7, 2018

Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as told by the participants themselves.

Naming Our Desire: How Do We Talk About Socialism in America?

Mark Engler ▪ Fall 2017

The millennial embrace of socialism has allowed a new generation to draw inspiration from a long legacy of struggle.

The Machiavelli of Nonviolence: Gene Sharp and the Battle Against Corporate Rule

Mark Engler ▪ Fall 2013

If there are some things in life that should not be bet on, the question of who will next win the Nobel Peace Prize somehow feels like it should be among them. Internet bookmakers, however, will place odds on almost …

George Takei’s Social Media Activism

Mark Engler ▪ April 2, 2013

I was a relative latecomer to Facebook—and a skeptic, too. Well into the Obama era, I was parroting the standard criticisms that people who haven’t actually spent time on the platform like to recycle: chiefly, “Why would I want to …

The Pope and the Poor

Mark Engler ▪ March 15, 2013

In November 2000, as Argentina’s economic crisis escalated, the country’s bishops, led by Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, emerged from a plenary conference with a statement that was hardly welcome news to proponents of economic neoliberalism. Arguing that the true …

Will the Next Pope Embrace Liberation Theology?

Mark Engler ▪ March 4, 2013

Will the next pope embrace liberation theology? The conventional answer would be: fat chance. However, without going too far out on a limb, one could also answer in the affirmative. In their own ways, both responses will likely be correct. …

The Real “Farmer” Story: So God Made High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Mark Engler ▪ February 11, 2013

Of the commercials that debuted at this year’s Super Bowl, one of the most talked about has been “Farmer,” a Dodge truck ad that pays tribute to the salt-of-the-earth middle Americans who work the land. (Check it out here if …

Boy Scouts Set to Cave on Gay Rights

Mark Engler ▪ January 31, 2013

It’s not yet a done deal, but the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are on the cusp of a dramatic reversal. The organization announced on Tuesday that, when its leadership meets in Dallas next week for a national board meeting, …

After the Election: Time to Stop Settling for the Lesser Evil

Mark Engler ▪ November 9, 2012

Click here to read the rest of our election symposium. There was a lot less dancing in the streets this Election Day than in 2008, when the nation celebrated the election of the first African-American president. But progressives can nonetheless …