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
PoliticsChild Labor Isn’t in the Past We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.By Mollie Wilson O’ReillyAugust 6, 2023
ReligionOpus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.By Daniele PalmerAugust 4, 2023
CultureBarbie the Existentialist Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.By Santiago RamosAugust 25, 2023
BooksIs Ethics Like Math? A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory. By Frank B. FarrellAugust 17, 2023
CollectionsPope Francis at Ten Years A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.By The EditorsMarch 12, 2023
