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May 20, 2014December 28, 2014

Dreamers of the World, Unite

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May 6, 2013December 13, 2020

Richard Rhodes Memoir of an American Boyhood

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February 24, 2013December 16, 2013

Thinking for Yourself in America: Revisiting “The Middle Mind”

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January 8, 2013October 31, 2015

Remembering Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)

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Health Care

The Science Behind the Spirit: Exploring the Frontiers of Medicine

By Mark T. Harris on June 19, 2012October 27, 2015

WITH JOAN BORYSENKO, PhD, FOUNDER OF THE MIND-BODY CLINIC, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL  It was the late 1950s and a new, experimental drug called Krebiozen was being heralded as a potential cancer cure. For one patient, however, it seemed that the drug had appeared too late to be of any benefit. The lymphoma had spread an

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Politics

NATO in Chicago: Protests Are Here to Stay, and the Warmakers are Afraid

By Mark T. Harris on May 21, 2012January 8, 2013

The thousands gathered in Chicago this past weekend to protest the NATO summit and the G8 meeting in Camp David are another sign we are in a new era of social activism. The Occupy movement is not going away. What is disappearing from the American landscape is the old passive acquiescence to an unjust status

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Sinead O’Connor: Music’s ‘Uncooperative’ Celebrity

By Mark T. Harris on April 13, 2012December 28, 2014

What are we to make of Sinead O’Connor? The Irish singer who rose to fame at age 21 with her 1987 release, “The Lion and the Cobra,” has in ensuing years acquired a reputation that seems to obligate journalists to affix some pointed adjective before every mention of her name. Thus, we have the “troubled”

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Politics

The Election 2012: Mitt, Mormons, and Money

By Mark T. Harris on January 23, 2012December 28, 2014

Growing up in a family with ties to founders of the Mormon Church, I learned at an early age a little about the church’s teachings. I read Mormon comic books for children that claimed humans in the Garden of Eden used to live to the age of 900 or so. I learned that God in

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The Game of Life

By Mark T. Harris on January 5, 2012January 23, 2016

AN UTNE MAGAZINE COVER STORY I traveled to downstate Illinois recently to visit a friend and her 8-year-old daughter, Lillian. Early one morning, Lillian and I were sitting in the living room as she waited for her mother to drive her to school. Lillian asked me if I was planning to stay another night. I

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“Here is a voice of great clarity and conviction. Mark Harris writes convincingly, even beautifully, of the possibilities for a transformed world.” — Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Studies

Mark Harris is a Portland, Oregon-based writer. His essays and other writing appear in Utne magazine, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Truthout, The Oregonian, Z, and other publications and news sites. Harris is a featured contributor to “The Flexible Writer,” fourth edition, by Susanna Rich (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003); and “Guide to College Reading,” sixth edition, by Kathleen McWhorter (Addison-Wesley, 2003).

Contact: MarkHarris.media@gmail.com

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