Regina Munch

Article

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

War and Peace

Joe Biden

Middle East

Article

Iran & America

John Ghazvinian discusses the long history of Iranian-American relations, and how it can inform our present foreign policy with Iran.

By Regina Munch

June 8, 2021

Middle East

Foreign Affairs

Article

Violence in Tigray

The picture slowly emerging from the Tigray region in Ethiopia is desperately grim.

By Regina Munch

April 26, 2021

Foreign Affairs

War and Peace

Article

Hope for Yemen

The Biden administration has the opportunity, and the obligation, to end the catastrophe in Yemen.

February 22, 2021

Article

Lame-Duck Executions

If all goes as scheduled, President Trump will have presided over more executions than any president in more than a century.

By Regina Munch

December 29, 2020

Death and Dying

Donald Trump

Article

‘Worship of a False God’

Fr. Bryan Massingale speaks about why racism persists in America and the Church: because racist policies and structures benefit white people.

December 27, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Visionary Gradualist Pressure

To Michael Harrington, socialism was the idea of a society in which certain fundamental limitations of human existence are transcended.

By Gary Dorrien

September 8, 2021

Religion

A Beautiful Day, A Horrible Event

From the archives: Faith in the Resurrection does not cancel out what happens on the cross; the cross is its beginning.

By John Garvey

September 11, 2021

Religion

The Limits of ‘Traditionis Custodes’

Anti–Vatican II traditionalism won’t just disappear by papal fiat.

By Massimo Faggioli

September 2, 2021

Culture

The Same Anew

The poet Donald Revell believes that seeing—true seeing, ecstatic seeing—is the poet’s real task.

By Anthony Domestico

September 2, 2021

Culture

There Ought to Be a Law

The law is one thing, morality another. Conflating them flattens our public morality into a deadening binary.

By Matthew Boudway

May 24, 2021

Books

Learning What to Want

Not all aesthetic consumption is equal, and developing the ability to judge the art we encounter can help transform us.

By Nate Klug

September 8, 2021

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