Feature The Other Afghanistan American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.By Solmaz DaryaniOctober 2, 2021 Middle East Climate Change Arts
Article The Forever War Continues The United States’s military interest in the Persian Gulf reflects an outdated status quo of oil dependence. By Andrew J. BacevichSeptember 20, 2021 Foreign Affairs War and Peace Middle East
Article An Unwinnable War Biden is right to pull us out of Afghanistan. But he’s wrong to absolve us of blame in the country’s ongoing struggle.By The EditorsAugust 19, 2021 Middle East War and Peace Foreign Affairs Joe Biden
Article Your Lebanon & Mine In Lebanon, hyperinflation, an influx of refugees, and complete political collapse have created a dangerous crisis.By Joseph AmarAugust 10, 2021 Middle East War and Peace Foreign Affairs
Article Iconoclasm 2.0 ISIS’s 2015 destruction of Iraqi sculptures raises broader questions about the fraught relationship between politics, religion, and technology.By Mahri Leonard-FleckmanJuly 11, 2021 Middle East Foreign Affairs Nonfiction
Article No More Blank Checks The House is repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. But other AUMFs remain in place, and those, too, must go.By Regina MunchJuly 8, 2021 War and Peace Joe Biden Middle East
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
