Dominic Preziosi

This year, global carbon emissions could drop 8 percent, the largest reduction since 2008. But with Trump in office, don’t count on permanent improvement.

By Dominic Preziosi

May 19, 2020

Climate Change

Coronavirus

Donald Trump

Social Justice

Article

Biden, Past & Future

Joe Biden’s probable nomination is unlikely to satisfy those who want a revolution. But as a string of primaries has shown, they’re not the majority of Democrats.

March 18, 2020

Article

American Gangsters

Donald Trump clearly has the capo’s appetite for retribution, and a knack for attracting eager henchmen. By refusing to call witnesses, Republicans are complicit.

January 31, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Will a Plebiscite Bring Reform in Chile?

Mass demonstrators want to re-legitimize, reconstruct, and reconfigure Chile’s political foundation. But first, Chile must get past the pandemic.

By Santiago Ramos

September 1, 2020

Religion

Pope Francis’s Call to Fraternity

At the core of ‘Fratelli tutti’ is Francis’s conviction that the world is fast losing its sense of the oneness of the human family.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 4, 2020

Culture

Readings & Screenings

In the final installment of our series, we consider two landmark essays on Homer’s Iliad alongside Costa-Gavras’s Greek political thriller, ‘Z.’

By Griffin Oleynick and Anthony Domestico

September 28, 2020

Books

D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

Nature is central to this collection of D. H. Lawrence’s nonfiction, from New Mexican deserts to flowering Tuscan hills.

By George Scialabba

October 10, 2020

Collections

The 2020 Presidential Election

Amid the confusion created by the pandemic, one thing is clear: the 2020 election will be unlike any other. Here’s some of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

By The Editors

September 11, 2020