Mark Rahner Connect: Twitter LinkedIn Mark Rahner is a journalist, talk radio host, comic book author, and podcaster. Articles By This Author Issues How Disaster Movies Reflect Political Extremism—But Now It’s Getting a Little Real You get to practice looking at the abyss and ask yourself: Would you be one of the good people? Mark Rahner | Feb 13, 2019 Democracy And the Winner for Best Political Moment Is ... the Oscars If you’ve got a conscience and you’ve got a few seconds in front of a billion people, how could you not speak out against injustice? Mark Rahner | Mar 3, 2018 Democracy Think of Spielberg’s “The Post” as Your Fake-News Palate Cleanser Maybe journalists will watch those old-timers with their glorious combovers and remember their own responsibility and power. Mark Rahner | Dec 22, 2017 Democracy The Really Scary Thing About the CDC’s Seven “Banned” Words The two words we should be worried most about? Fascism and authoritarianism. Mark Rahner | Dec 18, 2017 Democracy Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Sequel” Could Have Gone Further Let’s face it. The people who really need to see this film are never going to go near it. Mark Rahner | Aug 4, 2017 Opinion | Social Justice The Progressive’s Guide to Reacting to Offensive Comedy Ten tips for when everyone says your favorite comedian has “gone too far.” Mark Rahner | Jul 20, 2017 Democracy Trump White House vs. “House of Cards” White House Binge-watchers of the new season will find it’s hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption. Mark Rahner | Jun 9, 2017 Social Justice “Twin Peaks”: A Weird Escape From Our Even Weirder Trump Politics The world of FBI Agent Dale Cooper has nothing on James Comey’s. Mark Rahner | May 31, 2017 Democracy Paranoid and Scared After Watching The Handmaid’s Tale? Good The TV show is striking a chord that the novel and movie did not. Maybe it’s because we’re starting to see bits of Gilead all around us. Mark Rahner | May 17, 2017 Environment Netflix and Bill Nye Are Saving Science—30 Minutes at a Time With Netflix’s ascendancy and the way it’s changing viewing habits, “Bill Nye Saves the World” may be a huge opportunity for science education. Mark Rahner | May 8, 2017
Issues How Disaster Movies Reflect Political Extremism—But Now It’s Getting a Little Real You get to practice looking at the abyss and ask yourself: Would you be one of the good people? Mark Rahner | Feb 13, 2019
Democracy And the Winner for Best Political Moment Is ... the Oscars If you’ve got a conscience and you’ve got a few seconds in front of a billion people, how could you not speak out against injustice? Mark Rahner | Mar 3, 2018
Democracy Think of Spielberg’s “The Post” as Your Fake-News Palate Cleanser Maybe journalists will watch those old-timers with their glorious combovers and remember their own responsibility and power. Mark Rahner | Dec 22, 2017
Democracy The Really Scary Thing About the CDC’s Seven “Banned” Words The two words we should be worried most about? Fascism and authoritarianism. Mark Rahner | Dec 18, 2017
Democracy Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Sequel” Could Have Gone Further Let’s face it. The people who really need to see this film are never going to go near it. Mark Rahner | Aug 4, 2017
Opinion | Social Justice The Progressive’s Guide to Reacting to Offensive Comedy Ten tips for when everyone says your favorite comedian has “gone too far.” Mark Rahner | Jul 20, 2017
Democracy Trump White House vs. “House of Cards” White House Binge-watchers of the new season will find it’s hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption. Mark Rahner | Jun 9, 2017
Social Justice “Twin Peaks”: A Weird Escape From Our Even Weirder Trump Politics The world of FBI Agent Dale Cooper has nothing on James Comey’s. Mark Rahner | May 31, 2017
Democracy Paranoid and Scared After Watching The Handmaid’s Tale? Good The TV show is striking a chord that the novel and movie did not. Maybe it’s because we’re starting to see bits of Gilead all around us. Mark Rahner | May 17, 2017
Environment Netflix and Bill Nye Are Saving Science—30 Minutes at a Time With Netflix’s ascendancy and the way it’s changing viewing habits, “Bill Nye Saves the World” may be a huge opportunity for science education. Mark Rahner | May 8, 2017