Isabella Simon

Isabella Simon is the managing editor at Commonweal.

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It’s Time for Climate Reparations

Egypt’s COP27 inspires pretty speeches. But can it inspire real action?

By Isabella Simon

November 18, 2022

Climate Change

Africa

Article

‘Woman, Life, Freedom’

Iranians protesting after the death of Mahsa Amini continue taking to the streets, despite institutional challenges and violent crackdowns.

By Isabella Simon

October 19, 2022

Middle East

Gender

Article

DeSantis’s Stunt

Migrants are people, not pawns to be moved across the country in a game of politics. They deserve care, not false promises.

September 23, 2022

Article

The Inflation Reduction Act

Though nominally targeting inflation, the IRA’s most significant benefits are its investments in health care and clean energy.

August 24, 2022

Article

An Extraordinary Case

The Supreme Court’s recent decision limits the EPA’s ability to regulate emissions, furthering the conservative majority’s fundamentally deregulatory agenda.

By Isabella Simon

July 7, 2022

Supreme Court

Climate Change

Article

Anti-Trans Legislation

Legislation proposed across the country uses misinformation to target transgender children.

By Isabella Simon

May 23, 2022

LGBTQ issues

Domestic Affairs

Must Reads

Politics

How Not to Defend Liberalism

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

By Alexander Stern

September 14, 2023

Religion

Bringing Mass to a Migrant Camp

“In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 1, 2023

Culture

Dancing Around Death

A new exhibit brings together Tibetan Buddhist and European Christian art, inviting visitors to ponder their ambivalence surrounding death.

By Xiao Situ

September 14, 2023

Books

Helen Keller, Christian Socialist

Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.

By Nick Tabor

September 13, 2023

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

Writing from Commonweal on the effects of climate change and our responsibility to care for our common home.

By The Editors

September 20, 2021