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Oct 23, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | James T. Kloppenberg |Charles McNamara |Stephen Pope |Regina Munch
Commonweal celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1974. Across the country, but perhaps especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, the anger, exuberance, and idealism of the sixties were souring into disillusionment and disaffiliation. That year, I began graduate studies in history and humanities at Stanford. As a student of American intellectual history rummaging around in little magazines such as the Nation, the New Republic, and Dissent, I stumbled across Commonweal.
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May 31, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
U.S. President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington May 22, 2023 (OSV News photo/Leah Millis, Reuters). In 2011, the last time the country faced a debt-ceiling showdown, Republican lawmakers took away an important lesson: economic extortion and political brinkmanship are good politics.
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May 31, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
Migrants waiting near the U.S. border wall are battered by dust and high winds near El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023 (OSV News photo/Reuters). With the May 11 expiration of the national health emergency related to the pandemic, the use of Title 42 as an immigration-enforcement tool also came to an end.
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May 4, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Michael Higgins |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
The sexual proclivities of the predators run the usual gamut, but in Jean Vanier’s case in particular they are often justified as chaste sexuality because of the absence of coitus.
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May 3, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Stuart Dybek |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
This should be tapped in staccato like a telegram,on an obsolete Underwood condemned to a gratedpawnshop window, for disseminating what was banned,striking a ribbon spooled from dark nylons thunder worewhen it shocked lilacs into bloom. Afterward, the lawnwas pasted with confetti as if a parade had passed. Before a blue Madonna, a baptismal birdbath crestedin a lilac foam.
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May 3, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | William T. Cavanaugh |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
A rosary is pictured hanging from a machine gun as Ukrainian soldiers stand at their positions near the Ukrainian town of Pervomaysk (OSV News photo/Gleb Garanich, Reuters).
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May 3, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Burke Nixon |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
Hua Hsu’s perceptive and unforgettable memoir, Stay True, focuses mostly on his college years—and one particularly meaningful and heartbreaking friendship from that period—but it begins with the story of his father and a fax machine. In the early nineties, Hua’s father was working in Taiwan, while his son was starting high school in the Bay Area and struggling in math. The family fax machine allowed Hua’s father to help him with his geometry homework from 6,500 miles away.
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May 3, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Megan Buskey |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
Right: Light floods into a gallery of the Bukhanchuk Museum of Fine Arts in Kmytiv, a village about thirteen miles from Zhytomyr. The museum houses one of the nation’s largest collections of Soviet art. Below, left: Every autumn, people gather bouquets of fallen leaves to enjoy the vivid colors of the season at home. In 2022, a Russian missile landed close to this park in central Kyiv, leaving a large crater that was quickly patched up.
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May 3, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
Deadline after deadline has passed, but the seven states that draw their water from the Colorado River system have yet to agree on the cuts required to save the fast-shrinking river. Despite a short reprieve delivered by this year’s unusually wet winter, the river is still heavily over-allocated. Climate change and aridification guarantee that the problem won’t resolve itself.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
Giorgia Meloni in Rome in 2022 (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters) April 25 in Italy is Liberation Day, a sacred date in the secular calendar of the Italian Republic. But this April 25 will be different from all the others since the end of World War II: for the first time since then, the country has, in Giorgia Meloni, a prime minister whose party’s ideology is historically rooted in the Nazi-Fascist regime opposed to the Allies and the Italian resistance that liberated Italy.
