Columns / Mark Engler

In cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs. Mark Engler explores solutions.

The people Trump has entrusted with significant responsibilities are so vile and dangerous that we should be grateful he has neglected to find many more, Mark Engler writes.

Mark Engler considers popular resistance to mass shootings and increasing healthcare costs in the US.

View from America by Mark Engler.

A year ago, Trump announced he had reached a deal with manufacturer Carrier to keep jobs from moving to Mexico – with $7 million in incentives. Yet hundreds of workers were still laid off, the last of them this January. Trump’s policy should be called ‘Corporate America First’, argues Mark Engler.

Some people have so much money they don’t know what to do with it – while most of us scrimp and save just to get by. Mark Engler reflects on the vulgar reality of extreme wealth.

To make this culture of sexual harassment a thing of the past requires organizing and mass mobilization, writes Mark Engler.

Mark Engler asks 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.

Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is, writes Mark Engler

View from America by Mark Engler

View from America by Mark Engler

What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement? Mark Engler asks.

Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent, says Mark Engler.

In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience, writes Mark Engler.

Technocratic liberals treat movement groups as another ‘special interest’ rather than a central pillar of their ability to govern, says Mark Engler.

We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege, writes Mark Engler.

Mark Engler reflects on how one man's protest made waves around the US.

The native-led resistance at Standing Rock has emphasized environmentalism of a different complexion than is typically associated with ecological activism in the United States, writes Mark Engler.

The former US Secretary of State endorsed human rights violations in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Argentina, yet Hillary Clinton calls him 'a friend'.

The latest view from the U.S., by Mark Engler.