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Jan 11, 2025 | 
msnbc.com | Marcia Chatelain
During the height of the racial justice protests that came after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, McDonald’s joined the fray of businesses and institutions declaring their solidarity with all those committed to ending racism. In a post on June 3, 2020, on the platform then known as Twitter, McDonald’s shared a short video listing Floyd’s name alongside other Black victims of violence, including Trayvon Martin and Atatiana Jefferson.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
slate.com | Christina Cauterucci |Marcia Chatelain |Nichole Perkins |June Thomas
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
slate.com | Christina Cauterucci |Marcia Chatelain |Nichole Perkins
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Marcia Chatelain
En la política presidencial estadounidense hay que ir al encuentro de los votantes potenciales donde ellos estén. Por eso, cada cuatro años, las iglesias, los campus universitarios e incluso las peluquerías se convierten en los pilares del circuito de la campaña presidencial. Este año, los contendientes han añadido el área donde se fríen las papas a la francesa del McDonald's.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Marcia Chatelain
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Sean Byrnes |Mike Konczal |Daniel Schlozman |Marcia Chatelain
What’s the Matter With the Democrats? Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters. ▪ Fall 2024 Illiberal America: A Historyby Steven HahnW.W. Norton & Company, 2024, 464 pp. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart—Againby Robert KaganKnopf, 2024, 256 pp. It’s been a hard year for the Democrats.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Nina Eichacker |J.W. Mason |Josh Bivens |Marcia Chatelain
Rebuilding the Democratic Coalition While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies. ▪ Fall 2024 Whatever you think about Joe Biden, the achievements of Bidenomics deserve celebration. The Biden administration bucked economic orthodoxy by boosting household income, which successfully lowered the child poverty rate, including for nonwhite households.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Darcy Courteau |Matt McManus |Marcia Chatelain |Brad East
Winter was coming. The bare oaks left ridgelines fronded with junipers, and farmers were in their fields, gleaning the last of the year’s harvest. I found my friend Vab Yang digging up sweet potatoes on her farm outside Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where the Ozark Plateau rolls into the plains, and fell in beside her. Vab (pronounced Vah) mentioned that a Hmong New Year festival was taking place nearby.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Matt McManus |Marcia Chatelain |Brad East |Gilbert Meilaender
This week, as we near the conclusion of an eventful year, we’re highlighting ten stories Commonweal published in 2023 that most immediately resonated with readers and, in our estimation, best represented our coverage of religion, politics, and arts and culture. Throughout the year, Austen Ivereigh and Massimo Faggioli delivered exceptional analysis of the Synod on Synodality and Pope Francis’s papacy, as well as the politics surrounding them. Two stories exemplify their work.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Alexander Stern |Matt McManus |Marcia Chatelain |Brad East
As a brief ceasefire ended in Gaza and Israeli forces escalated attacks that have killed nearly twenty thousand Palestinians—most of them civilians—the war has increasingly become the backdrop for political and cultural disputes here in the United States.
