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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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Glyphosate-based Herbicides: Spray Now, Ask Questions Later

By Mark T. Harris on January 6, 2020January 7, 2020

There’s a lot of talk in the Trump era about the “war on science.” But this war, such as it is, extends far beyond uninformed Republican attacks on climate change science or Donald Trump’s mocking insults of Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist nearly 60 years the old bully’s junior. This war involves not only

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To the Socialist Future

By Mark T. Harris on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

NO BILLIONAIRES, NO FASCISTS, NO WARMONGERS There’s probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism. Actually, imagining just a kinder, more equitable version of capitalism, one in which the existence of elite wealth is tempered by the peoples’ right to health care, a college education, affordable

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Liberate Medicine from the Profiteers

By Mark T. Harris on May 25, 2019

From Reproductive Rights to the Opioid Crisis and More, the Promise of Single Payer With an authoritarian, right-wing President in office who disdains everything from women’s reproductive rights to basic climate science, who touts military coups in Venezuela and genocide in Iran and yucks it up with crowds of racist louts who want to shoot

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Bay Area Memories —In the Name of Love? Democracy?

By Mark T. Harris on February 27, 2019March 4, 2019

In the San Francisco Bay Area many years ago, I was once walking through an indoor suburban shopping mall south of the city. There from a distance I encountered the scene of a woman, two young children in tow, impulsively jamming an empty stroller into the side of the older child, a boy who looked

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Weaponizing Trauma: Neoliberalism and the Authoritarian Threat

By Mark T. Harris on January 27, 2019January 29, 2019

It was in 1947 that the poet W.H. Auden published his famous book-length poem, The Age of Anxiety, which a year later would win the Pulitzer Prize. After Nazism and a catastrophic world war, nuclear genocide in Japan, and the launch of the Cold War, it was no surprise that the term soon became a popular

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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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