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Jul 23, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Megan Buskey |Susana Girón |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant
The 2024 Paris Olympics, beginning July 26, are the first Olympic games since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Athletes at the Koncha-Zaspa Olympic Center in Kiev, along with their compatriots training outside of Ukraine, know that this international competition provides an important occasion to draw attention to Russia’s invasion and Ukraine’s resilience.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Megan Buskey |Susana Girón |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant
The 2024 Paris Olympics, beginning July 26, are the first Olympic games since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Athletes at the Koncha-Zaspa Olympic Center in Kiev, along with their compatriots training outside of Ukraine, know that this international competition provides an important occasion to draw attention to Russia’s invasion and Ukraine’s resilience.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Joseph Sorrentino |Elena Curti |David Mills |Megan Buskey
The magpie is dressed to impress—and knows it. She wears a multi-strand red necklace, a floral crown, and a traditional blouse with embroidered patterns that extend to the tips of her wings. A dazzling set of peacock feathers is arrayed around her. On the left of the frame, a bird, bear, rabbit, and frog look on, musical instruments at the ready. They are rendered simply but expertly, their folksy horns and cymbals evoking the joy of an impending celebration.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Megan Buskey |Joseph Sorrentino |Elena Curti |Griffin Oleynick
Generally speaking, you don’t go to the Frick expecting to find yourself on the cutting edge of the art world. The museum’s sumptuous collection, mounted in a Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue, is opulent and monumental rather than avant-garde. Painted porcelain vases, gilded antique clocks, and sculpted fountains provide a rarefied backdrop to paintings by Old Masters hanging from wood-paneled walls.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
publicbooks.org | Megan Buskey |Charlotte Rosen
She and I converged on a sullen love for our country,” begins “The Ukraine,” a short story by Artem Chapeye. “A hate-love, some might say. A love with a dash of masochism, I used to say. A love in defiance of pain, she used to say.” As a Ukrainian American who has been traveling to Ukraine regularly for twenty years, I immediately recognized the affection and ambivalence in the writer’s words.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Megan Buskey |Joseph Sorrentino |Elena Curti |Clifford Thompson
For a baker’s dozen of years beginning in the late 1990s, I was the editor of a monthly reference journal called Current Biography. Our articles on accomplished living people relied heavily on secondary sources; in the course of writing and editing each 2,500-word biography of an actor, businessperson, writer, athlete, scientist, politician, musician, or what have you, my staff and I combed through dozens of published reviews, interviews, and profiles.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
vqronline.org | Megan Buskey
Support for this project was provided by the Dutch Fund for In-depth Journalism, Postcode Lottery Fund and Free Press Unlimited. Olya Zhuk can’t recall her first memory of the Oselya community for the homeless. She arrived at its modest main residence in Vynnyky, a suburb of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, with her mother when she was an infant. Growing up, Oselya’s rules were as second nature to Olya as bedtimes and curfews are for other kids.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli |Matt McManus |Gary Dorrien |Megan Buskey
The numerous reactions and protests have had an effect: the Dicastery for Culture and Education has partially backtracked, announcing that the negative decision is valid “at the moment” and that it wants to take a year to review the case. What was the problem in Lintner’s publications? It has been reported that his book The Rediscovery of Eros (published in German in 2011 and in Italian in 2015) was anonymously denounced in 2012 by two different people.
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Jul 30, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Bernard G. Prusak |Matt McManus |Gary Dorrien |Megan Buskey
A pro-life billboard is seen in Cleveland June 24, 2021. Pro-life groups call Ohio 2023 abortion ballot initiative a test run of attempts to circumvent abortion limits (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters). My family and I moved to Ohio toward the beginning of the summer. We weren’t in our new house even a week before friendly neighbors began talking to us about politics.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Matt McManus |Gary Dorrien |Megan Buskey |Katherine Lucky
The border is a place, but it is also a metaphor: for our complicated personal identities and political allegiances, and for the moral claims made on us by those born on the other side. On this episode, interpreter and activist Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, shares insights from her work with asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
