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IssueVol. 142 Issue 001 (January 9 2015)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Dealing with disability A HARD CASE I have been a reader of Commonweal for over fifty years and this was the first time that an article angered and upset me. I refer to "Don't Beatify...
Paid articleShameless
From the Editors Shameless The Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent report on the CIA’s discontinued interrogation-and-detention program confirmed what many Americans have long suspected: that...
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dotCOMMONWEAL COMMONWEAL & THE NEW REPUBLIC Paul Baumann The big news in the world of opinion journalism—where Commonweal swims unobtrusively alongside much bigger fish (or sharks)—is last week’s...
Paid articleReal Politics, Anyone?
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
COLUMNIST Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Real Politics, Anyone? TRY CAMPAIGNING ON THE ISSUES The dismal prospect of the 2016 presidential cycle was perfectly captured in a cartoon of New Jersey...
Paid articleThe Bells of Balangiga
Quigley, Tom
SHORT TAKE Tom Quigley The Bells of Balangiga TIME TO FINALLY END THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR President Barack Obama concluded his brief April 2014 visit to the Philippines with a new and...
Paid articleSeeking Refuge
Rose, Ananda
ARTICLES Seeking Refuge Life & Death at the Border Ananda Rose I have only just arrived at La Posada Providencia, an emergency shelter for homeless migrants and asylum seekers in San Benito,...
Paid articleLife & death at the border The Charms of the Conqueror
Cooper, Rand Richards
The Charms of the Conqueror How John Updike Made It Look Easy Rand Richards Cooper Imagine a writer who would be the perfect antithesis to today’s literary culture, where confessional narratives...
Paid articleThe Voice of God
Karr, Mary
THE VOICE OF GOD Ninety percent of what’s wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket...
Paid articleHow John Updike made it look easy FiLM Birdman
Alleva, Richard
FILM Richard Alleva Blockbusted 'BIRDMAN' We’ve all seen terrific movies about the theater—All About Eve, Les Enfants du Paradis, Topsy-Turvy, among many others. And if you’re familiar with the...
Paid articleHeirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Reynolds, Gabriel Said
BOOKS Gabriel Said Reynolds Strangers in Their Own Land Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms Gerard Russell Basic Books, $28.99, 352 pp. When the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS, or the Islamic...
Paid articleMy Two Italies
Preziosi, Dominic
Dominic Preziosi Pieta & Meatballs My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $23, 224 pp. The room my wife and I were led to on the first evening of our Sicilian honeymoon had a...
Paid articleEvolution, Games, and God
Pope, Stephen J.
Stephen J. Pope Help Me Help You Evolution, Games, and God The Principle of Cooperation Edited by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley Harvard University Press, $35, 416 pp. ice guys finish...
Paid article'Til Faith Do Us Part
Hochschild, Paige E.
Paige E. Hochschild The Ties That Bind? ’Til Faith Do Us Part How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America Naomi Schaefer Riley Oxford University Press, $24.95, 256 pp. Since 1960, the...
Paid articleThe Silent Treatment
Bassett, Win
THE LAST WORD The Silent Treatment Win Bassett For at least three hundred hours this past summer, I practiced what not to say. Most people who have completed a unit of clinical pastoral education...
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