Regina Munch

As their country burns, tens of thousands of Australians have taken to the streets to protest the government’s response and its inaction in combating global warming.

By Regina Munch

February 3, 2020

Environment

Foreign Affairs

Article

Nick Cave & the Wounded World

Nick Cave’s album ‘Ghosteen’ probes the singer’s wounds after the death of his son, searching for a glimmer of grace amid deep grief.

January 30, 2020

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