Griffin Oleynick

Article

The Sixth Circle

Donald Trump’s sins are many. Were he alive today, Dante Alighieri would know just where to send him.

By Griffin Oleynick

June 4, 2020

Feature

A Humble Gaze

Dorothea Lange’s life of looking at others, especially those harmed by unjust systems, helped her see that victims were more than just their socioeconomic scars.

May 25, 2020

Article

Freedom in Solitude

The medieval nobleman-turned-hermit St. Romuald of Ravenna, founder of the Camaldolese Order, viewed confinement not as restriction but as gift.

April 16, 2020

Article

The Taliban ‘Peace’ Deal

With so little guaranteeing that the Taliban won’t continue business as usual, there’s reason to worry that life is going to get much worse for Afghans.

March 19, 2020

Article

Trump’s Travel Ban

The administration claims its ban of immigrants from African nations like Nigeria is related to national security. A more plausible explanation is racism.

By Griffin Oleynick

February 18, 2020

Donald Trump

Immigration

Muslim-Christian Relations

Race

Foreign Affairs

Article

Hunger Isn’t Productive

The Trump administration’s decision to cut SNAP benefits isn’t just stupid. It’s cruel. Ignoring the real conditions of poverty is a grave moral error.

December 16, 2019

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