Rand Richards Cooper

Rand Richards Cooper is a contributing editor to Commonweal. 

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Politics

No More Blank Checks

The House is repealing the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. But other AUMFs remain in place, and those, too, must go.
By Regina Munch
July 8, 2021
Culture

Giving the Sickness a Name

For the novelist Walker Percy, acedia was not just an arcane spiritual malady but a widespread, distinctly modern phenomenon.
By Jeff Reimer
July 7, 2021
Books

Bio Hazards

With both the highly anticipated arrival of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography and what’s transpired since, it’s harder to know what to think—about either subject.
By Dominic Preziosi
July 19, 2021
Books

Iconoclasm 2.0

ISIS’s 2015 destruction of Iraqi sculptures raises broader questions about the fraught relationship between politics, religion, and technology.
By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
July 11, 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
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