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Regina Munch

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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 30/09/2026
A big announcement… We’re delighted to launch The First Word, a weekly newsletter from senior correspondent @heidischlumpf.bsky.social. Each Monday, Schlumpf shares what she’ll be watching in the Church and beyond. Click the link below to subscribe! 👇️
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Max Foley-Keene @maxfoleykeene.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For @commonwealmagazine.org, I investigated Pope Leo's vibe, his strange kind of star power. I think his smile is the key. Link below—and let me know what you think!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/07/2026
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times recently documented specific, concrete cases of people who died in Africa of malaria, HIV, and other maladies due to DOGE-driven reductions in medical supplies and aid workers.
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It was amazing to attend such a unique gathering of political and religious leaders speaking about freedom, political rights, and peace.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 04/07/2026
The Declaration embraces equality—because it will not tolerate a tyrant’s cruelty. On America's 250th birthday, read Charlie Tyson on the Declaration's radical political vision: www.commonwealmagazine.org/declaration-...
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 03/07/2026
Happy 4th of July, for my first piece for @commonwealmagazine.org, I looked into whether or not the pandemic contributed to the nation’s rightwing lurch. Does Terror Management Theory, the idea that a repressed fear of death can have political consequences, help explain our current moment?
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Memento Mori
Is our collective refusal to remember and grieve the deaths caused by the pandemic contributing to s rightward lurch in our politics?
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Max Foley-Keene @maxfoleykeene.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My name's Max, and I'm very happy to be starting as digital editor at @commonwealmagazine.org! Here's my latest for the website — an America 250 take on early American pamphlet wars, MAGA slop, and Christian hope: www.commonwealmagazine.org/american-fou...
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Rising Above the Slop
The United States, on its 250th birthday, is a country in decline. American Catholics should embrace this sour semiquincentennial as a moment for discernment.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 03/06/2026
"It is the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation for the Church’s actions during the colonization of America." @regmunch.bsky.social reports on an extraordinary act of land rematriation:
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The Way You Let Go
This October saw the first known transfer of Church-owned land to a tribal nation as an explicit act of reparation. What can the experiment teach the rest of the Church?
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 27/05/2026
The June issue is here! Feat.: - @massimofaggioli.bsky.social and Thomas Banchoff on liberal democracy & the Church - Ian Marcus Corbin on our 'ownerist' society - Ellen Wayland-Smith on the hardness of Christian love And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2026
NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray
In several cities, judges have chastised federal officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/04/2026
in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Whether it’s children in liberal families watching Ms. Rachel or teenagers in conservative student groups praising Adolf Hitler, young people on both sides have embraced controversial figures.
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is one of my favorite stories we've published so far this year: www.commonwealmagazine.org/border-mercy...
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All the Way to the Abyss
My time in the borderlands taught me that there is dignity in the deviant and the criminal. Even Judases need an advocate.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 25/03/2026
Dame Mullally’s participation in Becket Camino represents a sign of ecumenism as she prepares to become the first woman to lead the Church of England. Analysis from Vanessa R. Corcoran: www.commonwealmagazine.org/canterbury-a...
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An Ecumenical Pilgrimage
Dame Mullally’s participation in Becket Camino represents a sign of ecumenism as she prepares to become the first woman to lead the Church of England.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 25/03/2026
The April issue is here! Feat.: - @susanbreynolds.bsky.social on Easter and cynicism - @alexwstern.bsky.social on AI - A conversation between Patti Smith and @antoniospadaro.bsky.social - @heidischlumpf.bsky.social on women's ordination And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 24/02/2026
The March issue is here! Feat.: - @regmunch.bsky.social & Patricia Hampl on the crisis in Minnesota - The Editors on Epstein - Frederick Bauerschmidt on Erik Varden's theology - @heidischlumpf.bsky.social interviews John Carr And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
An article from one of America's leading Catholic publications.
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Get mad, get organized, say no to your local concentration camp. www.commonwealmagazine.org/munch-trump-...
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The Cruelty Inside
The Trump administration is constructing a network of concentration camps on U.S. soil. Have the American people seen enough?
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Where do I go to get my apology from all the folks on both sides and center of the political spectrum who insisted Trump wasn't a warmonger or imperialist and would be different to the Democrats and Republicans and (especially) neocons who came before him?
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 23/07/2025
"I still wonder about the point of a flag or a sign or a bumper sticker. Is it to express frustration or to change people’s minds?" @regmunch.bsky.social takes a look at some pretty bad anti-Trump slogans: www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-politi...
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In This House We Believe
Expressing rage and group-identity can’t be the end of political communication. I worry that for too many privileged people, it is.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 08/07/2025
"What is happening in Los Angeles is not normal. Every American in every state needs to understand this. It may not stop here." @claudiaavilac.bsky.social writes from LA: www.commonwealmagazine.org/politics-imm...
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Canary in a Coal Mine
What is happening in Los Angeles is not normal. Every American in every state needs to understand this. It may not stop here.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 27/06/2025
"Immunity from preventable diseases will suddenly become unaffordable, and many poor children will go unvaccinated." @regmunch.bsky.social on Robert F. Kennedy's crusade against vaccination: www.commonwealmagazine.org/anti-vaxxers...
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The Anti-vaxxers Take Over
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines," but as secretary of HSS, he is steadily dismantling our national vaccine infrastructure.
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Very excited to contribute to the Point!
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."
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Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
My review of Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities out now in @commonweal.bsky.social More important topics covered in the issue: US deportation violences, the natural-birth movement, environmental justice www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
In which a pregnant lady gets very worked up about the advice to "trust your body."
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 23/04/2025
The May issue is here! Feat. - @paulelie.bsky.social on crypto-Catholicism in the 80s - @regmunch.bsky.social on the natural-birth movement - @drwclvrt.bsky.social on the entrepreneurial work ethic - The Editors on Trump's offshore gulag and much more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Get in, loser, we're defeating death and sin
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2025
bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record
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Dominic Preziosi @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Honored to be appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social soon with guest host @brigidbergin.bsky.social - another great 100-yr-old NYC institution, just like @commonweal.bsky.social !
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🚨🚨🚨New from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: “The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 17/03/2025
Tesla’s Cybertruck is a hard, ugly car for a hard, ugly age. @susanbreynolds.bsky.social: 'The Apocalypse Machine' www.commonwealmagazine.org/musk-elon-cy...
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The Apocalypse Machine
The Cybertruck is the vehicular love child of a SWAT truck and the Mars rover.
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Paul Moses @paulbmoses.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Here's a conversation I enjoyed with Tom Robbins on his WBAI Radio show "Deadline, NYC." What happened to Bob Menendez? I recalled him as a young man who demonstrated much integrity when he started his career in Union City, N.J., where I was a cub reporter. www.wbai.org/archive/prog...
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WBAI Radio Archives
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 18/02/2025
A special episode of the COMMONWEAL PODCAST about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations. Feat. @massimofaggioli.bsky.social, Kerry Robinson, and Cardinal Cupich: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/new-...
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The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’
A special episode about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations.
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Regina Munch @regmunch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I had a great conversation with James Chappel about his new book on aging in the US. We've been so successful at improving the lives of older people in the last century, but we've also failed to build on that success.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 09/02/2025
Regina Munch explains how we traded away our democracy for cheap stuff: www.commonwealmagazine.org/anti-trust-c...
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The Case Against Consolidation
Buying stuff has become the primary way Americans engage with strangers in public.
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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 06/12/2024
Is incentivizing marriage the cure for America's social ills? www.commonwealmagazine.org/happily-ever...
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Happily Ever After?
Is incentivizing marriage the cure for America's social ills?
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