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Macron’s Gamble

Furious protests have emerged over Macron’s pension reform, rammed through over the objection of the National Assembly. His message to protesters? Get over it.

By Miles Doyle

March 29, 2023

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Another Bank Crisis, Another Bailout

As long as liberal leaders remain unwilling to address a corrupt economic model that privatizes profits while socializing risks, they invite authoritarian fantasies.

By The Editors

March 27, 2023

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Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

This Lent, I pray that I might be converted to follow the example set by Jesus of a righteous passion that moves us to act in the face of death.

March 26, 2023

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Renaissance Man

On this episode, writer Clifford Thompson speaks about his love of art, music, literature, and film. And Kaya Oakes remembers the late Doris Grumbach.

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Lalo Alcaraz Comes Home

An exhibition celebrates Lalo Alcaraz—the author of the first Latino-themed nationally syndicated political comic strip. It’s classic Alcaraz: direct and very funny.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 25, 2023

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Paraguay at a Crossroads

The United States has accused the largest party in Paraguay of corruption. But is the alternative any better?

March 24, 2023

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Why ‘1984’ Topped the Russian Bestseller List

Are Putin’s puppets orchestrating a sales campaign to promote George Orwell’s ‘1984’?

By John Rodden

March 23, 2023

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All a Matter of Perspective?

Can Catholic health care find a viable middle way between strident voices on both the Right and Left?

By Bernard G. Prusak

January 27, 2023

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Renunciation and Christian Happiness

If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?

By Zena Hitz

March 20, 2023

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On Tradition and the Passion Play

How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-drama

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

March 15, 2023

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Two Sides of Dignity

By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.

By Costică Brădăţan

November 2, 2022

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Work of Human Hands

We shouldn’t be fearful of further transformations in the appearance of the Bible. The Word of God can speak as well in a laptop as from a manuscript.

By Luke Timothy Johnson

August 19, 2022

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Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

By The Editors

March 12, 2023

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Macron’s Gamble

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Another Bank Crisis, Another Bailout

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April 2023

Renaissance Man

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Lalo Alcaraz Comes Home

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Paraguay at a Crossroads

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Why ‘1984’ Topped the Russian Bestseller List

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All a Matter of Perspective?

Renunciation and Christian Happiness

On Tradition and the Passion Play

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