September 2020

Our dysfunctional relationship with the planet has found its way into art. Here, music for the climate apocalypse.

Amid the confusion created by the pandemic, one thing is clear: the 2020 election will be unlike any other. Here’s some of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

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.

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

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

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?