Griffin Oleynick

Griffin Oleynick is an assistant editor at Commonweal.

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Feature

Walls That Crossed Borders

An exhibition at the Whitney Museum immerses visitors in a creative “borderland.”

December 5, 2020

Article

A New Foreign Policy

Looking forward, the Biden administration will not only have to undo Trump’s disastrous foreign policy, but also proactively address the challenge posed by China.

November 30, 2020

Article

War in Nagorno-Karabakh

The escalating conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia calls for international diplomacy, but the Trump administration is failing to contain the crisis.

October 29, 2020

Article

Beirut’s Agony

In the United States as in Lebanon, the question is how much government negligence the people will put up with. We will have our own answer soon.

By Griffin Oleynick

August 26, 2020

Foreign Affairs

Election 2020

Muslim-Christian Relations

Article

The Sixth Circle

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

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

Must Reads

Politics

Persuading Anti-vaxxers

What comparison captures both the individual and communal benefits of vaccines? Traffic laws.

By Michael Peppard

August 16, 2021

Religion

A Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event

From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.

By John Garvey

September 11, 2021

Culture

The Same Anew

The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.

By Anthony Domestico

September 2, 2021

Books

Troubled Waters

Reefs are sacred spaces where scientific certainty gives way to mystery and awe. But climate change has made their extinction a very real possibility.

By Bryan P. Galligan, SJ

August 29, 2021

Collections

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re collecting poems and writings about poetry, with new additions by our literary critic every Friday.

By The Editors

April 7, 2021

Collections

Fiction in Commonweal

To celebrate the publication our summer fiction issue, a new collection of short stories from our archives.

By The Editors

July 30, 2019

Collections

Meeting the Stranger

A Catholic response to refugees and immigration through the pages of Commonweal

By The Editors

February 14, 2018