Article An Impossible Job Rosa Brooks’s book shows that she is the rare individual who, by upbringing and career, is able to comprehend both activists and police officers. By Margaret O’Brien SteinfelsAugust 14, 2021 Race Nonfiction Domestic Affairs
Article Polanyi-ish A new book aims to upend the axiom that limiting the scope of market activity necessarily constricts freedom.By Matt MazewskiJuly 21, 2021 Economy Domestic Affairs Nonfiction
Article Yours, Mine, or Ours An exploration of fracking in rural Pennsylvania reveals the effects of individualism on ecosystems and communities.By Gracy OlmsteadJuly 3, 2021 Nonfiction Domestic Affairs Environment
Article Exxon’s Corporate Coup Could activist investors force the most notorious polluter in America down a greener path?By Isabella SimonJuly 2, 2021 Climate Change Domestic Affairs
Article Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls The unforgivable sin of QAnon is not only its inability to withstand scrutiny, but also its pretension of omniscience.By Charles McNamaraJune 21, 2021 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article SALT Dogs State and local tax deductions disproportionately favor the wealthy. So why do Democrats support them?By Dominic PreziosiJune 2, 2021 Domestic Affairs Economy
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
