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Phil Andrew survived a school shooter’s bullet and has dedicated his life to countering violence. Now he’s running for Illinois’s ninth Congressional District seat.
This past year, I've learned there’s an edge to Christ's light—even a harshness, like the pain in your ears when you’ve been roused by a shrieking infant.

Hope in a Post-Secular Age

From 2025: The work of Jürgen Habermas suggests that secular modernity, which is threatening to spin out of control, needs its sister religion now more than ever.
Hosts and 'Commonweal' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor chat with professor and author Jonathan Sheehan about the history of sacrifice, from the sacred to the secular.
We need experts to help guide monetary policy—but expertise is no substitute for democratic deliberation over our values and priorities.
The man may be dead, but the ethos of the Epstein network is ascendant in American public life.
Individual retirement accounts like the 401(k) have become the backbone of our retirement system. They are a key contributor to the precarity unraveling the social fabric.
Christian Smith wants Notre Dame to be pure. But shrines are never pure—and Notre Dame is an American Catholic shrine.