Politics

Article

Too Radical for Michigan?

The Senate race in Michigan has swiftly replaced Maine’s as the central battleground in the war over the Democratic Party’s direction.

By Justin H. Vassallo

July 31, 2026

Election 2026

Politics

Article

Tax the Rich

The United States has made it much easier for the merely rich to become stratospherically wealthy. It's long past time to reverse course.

By The Editors

July 30, 2026

Financial Crisis

Politics

Far-right

Article

The Discourse Party

The Democratic Party needs centrists capable of self-criticism and leftists capable of self-discipline. The current state of the discourse militates against both.

By Alexander Stern

July 29, 2026

Politics

Donald Trump

Election 2026

Article

The Culture-War Factory

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, provocative art came to be leveraged for right-wing political power. We're still dealing with the consequences.

By Mark Athitakis

July 29, 2026

Culture

Books

Religion

Article

Why We Love to Hate Tradwives

“Yesteryear,” this year’s breakout novel, promises insights into the antifeminist phenomenon, but it doesn’t deliver.

By Heidi Schlumpf

July 23, 2026

Article

Hunger Is a Cry to Heaven

No one should be on the sidelines in the fight against hunger—especially when the GOP's fight against the hungry is being so ruthlessly waged.

By Regina Munch

July 23, 2026

Article

Britain Gets Another Prime Minister

The United Kingdom now has its sixth prime minister in the past ten years. Will this job crush even the ebullient Andy Burnham?

By Brian Morton

July 20, 2026

Article

Memories of Arrival

Recent responses to MAGA cruelty point to how ethnic memories can remain a potent political force.

By Patrick Granfield

July 10, 2026

Article

Hillbilly Eulogy

Ohio has known hucksters like J. D. Vance before. The state has a long memory for men who climb the ladder and then kick it down after them.

By Paul V. Brock

July 6, 2026

Donald Trump

U.S. Catholicism

Politics

Article

Fatiguing Us into Compliance

The Declaration’s grievances offer a portrait of political domination, teaching us what it feels like to be subjects rather than citizens. Can we recognize the predicament it describes?

By Charlie Tyson

July 2, 2026

Politics

America 250

Donald Trump

Article

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.

By Max Foley-Keene

July 2, 2026

Article

A Different Kind of Populist

Can James Talarico's blend of Christian uplift and progressive populism strike a chord among the Texans who have eluded Democrats this century?

By Justin H. Vassallo

July 2, 2026

Election 2026

Politics

Article

‘You Are America’

The Obama Center is surely a monument to one man’s leadership—but it also issues a call to every American to do their part in making the country a better place.

By Heidi Schlumpf

July 1, 2026

Barack Obama

Politics

America 250

Article

Reading 'Magnifica Humanitas'

From the point of AI to the Church's role in slavery, 'Magnifica humanitas' provides a rich analysis of creativity and humanity. Commonweal contributors weigh in.

By The Editors

July 1, 2026

Magnifica Humanitas

Artificial Intelligence

Article

Injury as Destiny

American Christianity has been captured by Trumpism over the past decade. How can we recover from his politics of resentment?

By David Albertson & Jason Blakely

June 30, 2026

Donald Trump

Far-right

Domestic Affairs

Article

Us vs. the Robots

Pope Leo invites us to discern the Christian principles that must guide practical decisions about AI. Notre Dame's DELTA framework does just that.

By Meghan Sullivan

June 30, 2026

Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV

Religion

Artificial Intelligence

Article

Trouble in Paradise

Chris Jennings's book about violent Christian separatists traces the fracturing of American society. But was America ever whole before, and can it ever be now?

By Tom Deignan

June 29, 2026

History

Nonfiction

Politics

Article

From Summit to Source

The Eucharist is not just the summit of our Catholic experience. It is also the source of our conviction to live as Christ did, giving ourselves to others in daily life.

By Kathryn Muensterman

June 29, 2026

U.S. Catholicism

Social Justice

Theology

Article

Searching for Something to Celebrate

On the eve of its 250th birthday, does the United States still present something of a model for mankind?

By Dominic Preziosi

June 29, 2026

America 250

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

No One Can Say ‘I Don’t Need You’

Virgil Michel and his friends at the Catholic Worker knew that liturgy and social justice are inseparable—together, they are the source and the fruit of true Christian spirit.

By Rita Ferrone

June 29, 2026

Liturgy

History

Social Justice

Article

Book Tour or Campaign Stump?

When J. D. Vance discusses his faith journey, he is careful not to offend any constituencies he may need in a presidential run.

By Heidi Schlumpf

June 29, 2026

Article

Automated Barbarism

Russia’s war in Ukraine may go down in history as the beginning of a new era of industrial warfare—with AI-powered drones at the center.

By The Editors

June 25, 2026

International

Politics

Editorial

Article

Innocence & Impotence

We are a people constantly at war and yet rarely in the crosshairs, using technology to offload the moral weight of our violent conflicts.

By Sophia Sheehy Bulla

June 18, 2026

War and Peace

Technology

Foreign Affairs

Article

Whatever Happened to Synodality?

If their latest meeting is any indication, U.S. bishops may be letting synodality fade—even on issues as important as the abuse crisis.

By Heidi Schlumpf

June 18, 2026

Synodality

Sexual-abuse Crisis

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Waidmannslust

"There is always the risk that we will forget we are merely playing pretend and begin living inside our own fictions."

By Linda Kinstler

June 15, 2026

Fiction

Foreign Affairs

Article

Changing the Calculus of Power

As the midterm elections approach, the Church must embrace more explicitly political strategies to combat Trump's war on immigrants.

By Heidi Schlumpf

June 12, 2026

Article

Featured Voices

Meet the men and women, laity and clergy alike, featured in "The City and the Cross."

By The Editors

June 10, 2026

podcast

U.S. Catholicism

Article

The City and the Cross

In this three-part narrative podcast series, inaugural Centennial Fellow Aaron Robertson chronicles the rise, erosion, and defiant survival of Black Catholic Detroit.

By Aaron Robertson

June 8, 2026

podcast

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’

What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.

By Antonio Spadaro

May 27, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Article

Armed and Dangerous

Pope Leo's call for disarmament leaves room for the possibility that AI can have good uses. But those uses can only be discovered by those who work for flourishing communities.

By John P. Slattery

May 27, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Article

‘Simply Murder’

Donald Trump's killing spree at sea is indefensible on legal, ethical, and moral grounds.

By Dominic Preziosi

May 27, 2026

Donald Trump

International

Politics

Article

Seeing What’s Not There

At Trump's Rededicate 250 event, religious leaders insisted that America was founded as a Christian nation. The claim doesn't withstand historical scrutiny.

By Steven P. Millies

May 26, 2026

Article

The Way You Let Go

October 2025 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?

By Regina Munch

May 26, 2026

Article

The Pope, the President, and Our Democratic Crisis

With autocracy on the rise, Pope Leo has an opportunity to rearticulate the Church’s positive teaching on democracy.

By Thomas Banchoff, Massimo Faggioli

May 25, 2026

Pope Leo XIV

Politics

History

Article

A Catholic Affirmation of Liberal Democracy

The moment has arrived for a new papal document that would offer a comprehensive Catholic condemnation of authoritarianism and a moral defense of liberal democracy.

By Stephen F. Schneck

May 22, 2026

Article

Reviving the Pro-Life Democrat

If Democrats want to create a durable coalition for a more just society, they must be willing to acknowledge the moral seriousness of pro-life convictions.

By Timothy Kirchoff

May 22, 2026

Abortion

Religion

Politics

Article

A Presidential Smash and Grab

Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history—he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents by orders of magnitude.

By The Editors

May 21, 2026

Editorial

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

Colbert the Critic

By serving as a voice for truth and challenging Americans to think critically about complex political issues, Colbert will go down in history as more than a comedian.

By Heidi Schlumpf

May 19, 2026

Television

Culture

Politics

Article

Can Women Deliver a Blue Wave?

Whether Democrats secure a narrow majority in the upcoming midterms or thrash Trump’s GOP, successful female candidates will be central to the story.

By Justin H. Vassallo

May 18, 2026

Politics

Donald Trump

Election 2026

Article

When Art & Geopolitics Collide

This year’s Venice Biennale was designed to be the most intimate and reflective in recent memory. Instead, it has turned into the most politically clamorous.

By Antonio Spadaro

May 15, 2026

Arts

Culture

Politics

Article

‘No to War!’

Leo’s Catholic critics tend to focus on just-war theory, while ignoring the support of the last several popes for international law and a world governing authority.

By Santiago Ramos

May 8, 2026

Article

Catholic Cliques

"On many days I wish I liked Catholics more, and I guess I wish my fellow Catholics had liked me more."

By Paul Baumann

May 7, 2026

Religion

Politics

Culture

Article

Leo Looks to the Council

Pope Leo’s emphasis on Vatican II reminds us that American Catholics have long sought a meaningful synthesis between Catholicism and democracy.

By Stephen McNulty

May 5, 2026

Vatican II

Pope Leo XIV

Article

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By Dominic Preziosi

May 5, 2026

Religion

Politics

Election 2026

Article

The Serpent in the Garden

Why do conservatives blame ‘cultural Marxism’ for nearly everything?

By Matt McManus

May 4, 2026

Article

Leo vs. the Americanists

The clashes between Leo and the Trump administration underscore how U.S. Catholics have come to behave as though they are religious authorities unto themselves.

By David Gibson

May 1, 2026