Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler
Laura Tanenbaum is an Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY whose work has appeared in publications including Jacobin, Dissent and the New York Times. Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia and an editorial board member at Dissent. His latest book is "This Is an Uprising."
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