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The end-of-summer book rush is here: Jane Austen and the Brontës reimagined, poetry lauding birdsong and lamenting Twitter, and new novels by familiar authors.

By Anthony Domestico

September 10, 2020

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White Churches & White Supremacy

White Christians are not simply complicit in racism and white supremacy, argues scholar Robert P. Jones. They’re actually culpable.

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Zero Tolerance, Zero Progress

El Salvador’s ‘tough on crime’ approach toward groups like MS-13 shows how such policies only exacerbate the gang problem.

By César J. Baldelomar

September 9, 2020

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Heedless Generosity

The well-known anthropologist and activist David Graeber died on September 2 while on vacation in Venice. He was thinking big till the end.

By Nicholas Haggerty

September 8, 2020

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Making an American

Jia Lynn Yang tells the story of a forty-year fight over immigration in the twentieth century, asking: What makes an American and who gets to decide?

September 7, 2020

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Keeping the Faith

In the face of continued voter suppression by Republicans, the time has come for new legislation protecting the rights of all American voters.

By The Editors

August 25, 2020

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Trolling the Catholic Vote

CatholicVote seems to think that if every issue is presented as black or white, the pro-life, pro-family Catholic voter will line up obediently at the polls.

By Paul Baumann

August 27, 2020

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Summer Readings & Screenings

Faith in God is an absurdity, as is Christ himself, and the believer must boldly, absurdly choose Christ anyway, again and again and again.

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

August 20, 2020

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Savers and Unloaders

Physical objects carry meaning for us, but their accumulation can be a kind of spiritual error. Reconciling this contradiction leads us to richer, deeper lives.

By Rand Richards Cooper

August 20, 2020

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The ‘Canceling’ of Flannery O’Connor?

This summer, Loyola University Maryland hastily decided to remove Flannery O’Connor’s name from one of its buildings. It should never have happened.

By Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

August 3, 2020

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COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.

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