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From No Kings to the World’s Poorest President, Highlander’s Hillbilly Radical to Japan’s Marxist Innovator – A Year of Protest and Writing
Here at the Whirlwind Institute, we are looking forward to an exciting 2026 with the launch of several new projects.
 • Paul Engler and Mark Engler
Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
 • Mark Engler
What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’
Considering how we can encourage new and creative strategies for making change.
 • Paul Engler
The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”
Whirlwind Institute senior research associate Guille Bervejillo examines what we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former president Pepe Mujica.
 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Using a “Maximum Wage” to Combat Billionaire Power
Whirlwind Institute analyst Celeste Pepitone-Nahas looks at steps toward capping executive pay.
 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?
Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.
 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Trump Is Inspiring a Historic Wave of Protests
There's no need to wait for resistance. It is happening now.
 • Mark Engler
Dispatches from the Whirlwind
Dispatches from the Whirlwind
Articles from Mark and Paul Engler on social change, lessons from movement history, and how we can win.

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