Article Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Has the United States learned anything from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan? The same assumptions that led us into those conflicts have now led us to Ukraine.By Andrew J. BacevichSeptember 7, 2023 War and Peace Ukraine Music
Feature Glimpses of Ukraine As important as features about war and suffering are, they miss much of the essence of Ukraine.By Megan BuskeyMay 20, 2023 Ukraine art
Article No War Is Good Nonviolent resistance is not just a plausible strategy to defend Ukraine—it is a path to conversion on both sides of the conflict.By William T. CavanaughMay 10, 2023 Ukraine War and Peace Religion Pope Francis
Article The Possibility of a Just War Tobias Winright discusses the tension between just war theory and Pope Francis's teachings of nonviolence in light of the war in Ukraine.By Tobias WinrightMay 10, 2023 War and Peace Ukraine Pope Francis
Feature Whose War Is It? In Germany, the postwar culture of minimal military intervention makes responding to the crisis in Ukraine especially difficult. By William Collins DonahueApril 29, 2023 War and Peace Russia Ukraine
Article Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine George Weigel’s latest polemic on the Ukraine War testifies powerfully to the perils of employing nostalgia as the basis of policy.By Andrew J. BacevichApril 20, 2023 War and Peace Ukraine Politics
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