Rand Richards Cooper

Rand Richards Cooper is a contributing editor to Commonweal. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, GQ, Esquire, the Atlantic, and many other magazines, as well as in Best American Short Stories. His novel, The Last to Go, was produced for television by ABC, and he has been a writer-in-residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. 

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Trump Taunts

In high-school sports contests between white suburban towns and minority city teams, the stresses placed on American norms of social civility are apparent.
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Sanctuary and Society

What are the implications of sanctuary – not as a set of individual cases, and not for us individually as citizens, but rather systemically, as policy?
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