Must Reads

Politics

‘Care, Not Cops’

How should we answer calls to ‘defund the police’? To start, we must begin meeting urgent social needs instead of reflexively resorting to arrest and prosecution.
By The Editors
July 2, 2020
Religion

Blurring Boundaries

Viruses may not be alive, but they are lively. A close look at how they replicate reveals an interconnected picture not just of human life, but of all reality.
By Cathleen Kaveny
June 22, 2020
Culture

Unwrapping Lazarus

For cystic fibrosis patients, recent medical breakthroughs have offered a new life: like Lazarus, they are unwrapping their bandages and re-entering the world.
By Roberto J. De La Noval
June 11, 2020
Books

Home Songs

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.
By Isabella Simon
June 12, 2020
Books

A Soft Spot for Atheism

Atheism is too serious a business to be left to the unbelievers. Unbelief needs the believer’s reflecting gaze to better understand itself.
By Costica Bradatan
June 8, 2020
Collections

The Coronavirus

COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.
By The Editors
April 21, 2020
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