Katherine Lucky

Katherine Lucky is the Managing Editor of Commonweal. Follow her on Twitter @katherinejlucky.

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Defending DREAMers

The recent Supreme Court decision leaves DACA recipients in legal limbo. Congress need to pass the DREAM act to secure their future.

July 1, 2020

Article

Wonderfully Made

Molly McCully Brown’s poetic essays grapple with questions of faith and resilience, and with living in a physically limited body that often fails her.

By Katherine Lucky

June 5, 2020

Spirituality

Nonfiction

Article

How Will We Eat?

Next to doctors and nurses, the most essential of essential workers—and the most at risk—are those who maintain our food supply.

April 24, 2020

Article

The Contagion Escalates

Containing and effectively addressing Coronavirus requires honesty and responsibility from the Chinese government.

February 24, 2020

Article

The Irony of Opioids

The Sackler family is profiting by treating addictions to their own drugs—a darkly ironic indication of the extent of corporate greed and individual powerlessness.

January 30, 2020

Article

Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.

By Katherine Lucky

October 9, 2019

Spirituality

Nonfiction

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