Article Scrapping the Color Code “We’ll never get beyond racism if we keep indulging the presumption that people of a particular color think alike, along color-coded lines.”By Jim SleeperOctober 13, 2021 Race Politics
Feature First Contact What would we have to fear—or learn—from an encounter with extraterrestrials?By Santiago RamosOctober 12, 2021
Article Radicalism Without Revolution A new book seeks to update Msgr. John A. Ryan’s vision of a moral economy for our own day and age.By Matt MazewskiOctober 11, 2021 Economy Nonfiction Social Justice
Feature ‘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 War and Peace Nonfiction Ethics
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 Reckoning 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 War and Peace Domestic Affairs
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
