Rand Richards Cooper

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Rand Richards Cooper is a contributing editor to Commonweal. 

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Politics

A Measure of Hope

The midterm elections show that democracy is still very much alive in the United States; but the Democrats need to offer messaging adequate to the moment
By Matthew Sitman
November 7, 2018
Religion

Our Myth, Their Lie

At the root of the sex abuse crisis is structure, the way church governance has calcified in past centuries; that structure has to go
By James J. Heaney
November 1, 2018
Culture

Peace on Murder Mile

Rev. Bill Shaw, a Presbyterian minister in a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast, is working to soothe generations of sectarian strife.
By Philip Metres
October 14, 2018
Culture

Nasty Woman

There was always anger at assault allegations: touching, drugging, choking; at pay gaps, at locker-room talk. But the anger I’m feeling has changed—for the worse
By Katherine Lucky
October 4, 2018
Books

Blood Types

Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe
By Regina Munch
October 31, 2018
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