NOVEMBER 6, 2009 
Cloudy Crystal Ball
Patrick Jordan
A review of John Allen’s new book ’Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church’
The Price of Freedom
What Came Down with the Berlin Wall
John Connelly
Untold Stories from East Germany
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Mind Games
Celia Wren
A review of a new production of Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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Democrats & Abortion
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Killing health-care reform would be bad for choice--and for the right to life.
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Diplomatic Defeat
Robert E. White
How the Obama administration turned diplomatic triumph in Honduras into defeat.
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Commonweal Internship Program
We are seeking promising students and recent graduates for spring and summer 2010.
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NOVEMBER 6, 2009
OCTOBER 23, 2009
Stimulate
The Editors
Meeting the nation’s long-term obligations won’t be possible without a stable economy.
An Eternal Now
Leo J. O’Donovan
A review of the Vermeer exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Bloody Errands
Rand Richards Cooper
A review of the films ’The Baader Meinhof Complex’ and ’The English Surgeon’
The Crisis of Liberal Catholicism
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels
From our 75th anniversary symposium, articles by Peter Steinfels, Cardinal George & others
Homosexuality & the Church
Eve Tushnet and Luke Timothy Johnson
Negotiating the authority of Scripture, tradition & experience.
Cross Examination
Sister X
"To put it bluntly, I feel that American women religious are being bullied."
How Is the Bible True?
Luke Timothy Johnson
Bible readers, especially Americans, look for truth in all the wrong places.
The War We Can’t Win
Andrew J. Bacevich
What is it about Afghanistan, possessing next to nothing that the United States requires, that justifies such lavish attention?
I Am Awake
Alice McDermott
A new short story by the National Book Award-winning author of ’Charming Billy’
Why Are We There?
The Editors
President Obama must do a better job of explaining our mission in Afghanistan.
America’s Blind Spot
Daniel Callahan
Why doesn’t the common good enter into our national health-care debate?
