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Forgiving My Mother’s Killer
From the universalist faith that God will redeem everyone, I gained a surprising gift: the capacity to forgive my mother, the woman who murdered her, and myself.
Julian Assele
A Multiracial Right?
It might be time to question the assumption that the Democrats will always be the more diverse of the two major parties.
Daniel Steinme…
'Of This World'—American Charisms
In the second episode of our special podcast series, ‘Commonweal’ contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with Molly Worthen, author of ‘Spellbound.’
The Politics of Empty Chairs
Donald TrumpPoliticsReligionInternational
By exiting international organizations, Trump creates a void that will be filled by competition, force, and fragmentation.
Antonio Spadaro
Another Requiem in Minneapolis
PoliticsImmigrationDonald Trump
The personal misery of a police state is hard for language to capture.
Patricia Hampl
Cruel and Indiscriminate
InternationalLatin AmericaPoliticsDonald Trump
For decades, U.S. sanctions have been crippling Venezuela—and the poor, not the politicians, have paid the greatest price.
Joy Gordon
Alex Pretti, Martyr
ReligionPoliticsImmigrationDonald Trump
By his spontaneous example, Alex Pretti called all Americans, but especially American Christians, to account.
Terence Sweeney
The Little Hours of Delaney Hall
ReligionPoliticsDonald TrumpImmigration
A prayer service outside a Newark DHS detention center was a reminder that, for Christians, every prison and every tyrant is a temporary thing.
Kevin Gallagher
Leo the Manager
Pope Leo XIVVaticanReligion
Leo possesses the mind of a mathematician and canon lawyer. He has the makings of an effective manager—even of a sprawling organization like the Church.
Heidi Schlumpf
The Dangers of Doctor Bot
Artificial IntelligenceTechnologyHealth Care
AI touches on the deepest longing of professionals to be foolproof. But it cannot replace the judgment of a real doctor.
Ronald W. Dworkin
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Dialogue Before Doctrine
Modern Catholic social teaching is now suffering the same decline as befell the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the twentieth century.
Timothy Kirchoff
EditorialDonald TrumpPoliticsImmigration
State of Siege
Five years after whipping up a loose army of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Trump has deployed a well-funded paramilitary force to execute his authoritarian agenda.
The Editors
Books
Waugh Warned Us
Donald Trump bears an uncanny resemblance to Rex Mottram, the businessman and opportunistic British politician in Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited.’
Paul Baumann
BooksPolitics
Princeps & Monsters
Tom Holland’s new translation of Suetonius’s ‘The Lives of the Caesars’ comes at a time when the psychology of tyrants is on all of our minds.
Jared Marcel Pollen