1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1381+ words) Commonweal Magazine Please email comments to letters@commonwealmagazine. org. On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the pope in Rome. The timing of the visit was as newsworthy as the visit itself. For weeks, Pope Leo has been a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1041+ words) Commonweal Magazine Leo Looks to the Council Please email comments to letters@commonwealmagazine. org. One year into Leo's pontificate, the first American pope has hardly kept quiet about his priorities. Leo's firm stance against war, authoritarianism, and economic injustice was…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (178+ words) In the spring of 2020, I stopped before the entrance to a corner store in West Philadelphia. On the door were two different signs, one faded and one brand new. The first said "No Masks or Face Concealing Hoodies." The second,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (883+ words) If a machine wrote this, I thought, we are truly screwed." I emailed back: "He? ?? ?" " " Darryl ignored my gibe. He'd been trying out Chat on all sorts of writing tasks, he told me. Remember that short story of Dan's, "Abu…...

2+ mon, 9+ min ago  (363+ words) Our ride turned somber for the next few hours. It gave us pause to think that we had been on the same ground where such an atrocity had been carried out'but where a community had also made its grief public…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1650+ words) Commonweal Magazine Bad for the Church, and the World Please email comments to letters@commonwealmagazine. org. Historians are wary of making comparisons between different eras and events, but also professionally disposed to doing so'Church historians included. Hence this consideration of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1049+ words) Commonweal Magazine Bringing Crisis Management to Congress Please email comments to letters@commonwealmagazine. org. Phil Andrew is the kind of guy you want in your corner during a crisis. A former FBI hostage negotiator, he brings a calm, authoritative demeanor…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (157+ words) As a result of this long and abysmal history, international law now has no force whatever. Previous U. S. administrations pretended to care about it and regularly ignored it. The present administration does not even pretend to respect law, domestic or international....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (140+ words) These federal policies have encouraged the rapid suffusion of AI products into all parts of life. AI use in military, police, and immigration enforcement has soared. Tech companies have fired thousands of workers, counting on the promise of a more…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (102+ words) Commonweal Magazine 'Of This World'On the Altar Hosts and Commonweal contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with Jonathan Sheehan, professor of European history at UC Berkeley, about his new book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the…...