Article Looking Down from the High Ground Barack Obama’s memoir is written with admirable clarity and attention to detail, but is weighed down by its tone.By Paul BaumannJanuary 1, 2021 Barack Obama Nonfiction Domestic Affairs
Article Afghanistan Forever? If American men and women were being drafted to fight in Afghanistan, there is not the slightest possibility the war would have dragged on for eighteen years.By Paul BaumannDecember 18, 2019 War and Peace Foreign Affairs George W. Bush Barack Obama
Article David Brooks Is Wrong The pundit has accused Democrats of neglecting God, and moral concerns, in favor of strictly material policy proposals. That’s just not true.By Paul BaumannAugust 16, 2019 Spirituality Barack Obama Donald Trump Economy Election 2020
Article A World without the West To pretend that something called the West continues to play an organizing role in international politics is to indulge in a vast self-deceptionBy Andrew J. BacevichMarch 5, 2019 Asia Barack Obama George W. Bush Donald Trump Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article The Coming Populist Showdown Successful Democratic candidates will be unapologetic in their embrace of multiracial democracy and just as fierce in their denouncement of plutocratsBy Sam Adler-BellMarch 4, 2019 Donald Trump Barack Obama Climate Change Domestic Affairs Immigration Social Justice Economy
Article Shrouded Figures A visit to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington occasions reflections not only on how we see, but who we think is worth seeingBy Paul BaumannFebruary 5, 2019 Arts Barack Obama Domestic Affairs Spirituality Death and Dying
PoliticsReckoning with Guantánamo The continued existence of Guantánamo Bay is unconscionable. So is the fact that it was ever opened in the first place.By The EditorsSeptember 28, 2021
Religion‘Always Together’ An excerpt from ‘Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis’By Pope FrancisSeptember 28, 2021
CultureIn Awe of All People The late John August Swanson’s ‘Procession’ reminds us that we all walk together, sharing our suffering and our happiness.By Claudia Avila CosnahanSeptember 30, 2021
Books‘Sops to Humanity’ Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.By Phil KlayOctober 4, 2021
CollectionsConfronting Climate Change Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.By The EditorsSeptember 20, 2021
