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Trump Can Run Again

The best way to prevent a return of Trumpism (or Trump himself) is for President Biden to champion the American worker through bold policies and appointments.

November 16, 2020

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The Double Agent

McCarrick was both a product and a manipulator of a system of clericalism that desperately needs to be overhauled.

November 13, 2020

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Glimpses of a New Order

Is a return to the old “normal” inevitable, or does this moment invite us to forge new patterns of living?

By E. R. Powell

November 10, 2020

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December 2020

Broken Open

Sr. Simone Campbell talks about how the courage to confront our own brokenness can bring about personal and political healing in this fractured moment.

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Collateral Damage

Our immigration system is fundamentally unjust. It has corrosive effects on everyone who participates in it, and it is only getting worse under Donald Trump.

By Paul Moses

November 4, 2020

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Beyond Growth

The planet cannot provide the endless growth capitalism demands. A new book explores an economic reordering that could move us toward a sustainable future.

November 4, 2020

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The Complicated Case of Hispanic Voters

If we assume all Hispanics are part of a liberal majority, we miss something fundamental about Hispanics in the United States, and therefore about the U.S. itself.

November 4, 2020

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Democracy in America?

The Republican Party under Donald Trump has abandoned even a minimal commitment to democratic government.

By The Editors

November 3, 2020

Religion

Soundtrack to an Encyclical

León Gieco’s Argentinian protest anthem might help us understand ‘Fratelli tutti.’

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

October 29, 2020

Religion

Pope Francis’s Call to Fraternity

At the core of ‘Fratelli tutti’ is Francis’s conviction that the world is fast losing its sense of the oneness of the human family.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 4, 2020

Religion

The Case of Theodore McCarrick

The whistle-blower in the McCarrick affair narrates the steps he took to report the former cardinal’s abusive behavior, but also the ways in which it was ignored

By Boniface Ramsey

February 16, 2019

Culture

Baptizing White Supremacy

An interview with Robert P. Jones examining the relationship of Christianity and white supremacy in America.

By Regina Munch

October 14, 2020

Culture

Taming the Demon

Our modern obsession with workplace efficiency has a simple answer: the prayerful, peaceful pace of Benedictine monastic labor

By Jonathan Malesic

February 2, 2019

Books

D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

Nature is central to this collection of D. H. Lawrence’s nonfiction, from New Mexican deserts to flowering Tuscan hills.

By George Scialabba

October 10, 2020

Books

No Longer Peripheral

Forget what Donald Trump says. For the past fifty years, it’s U.S. Latinos who have made American cities great.

By César J. Baldelomar

January 30, 2020

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The 2020 Presidential Election

Amid the confusion created by the pandemic, one thing is clear: the 2020 election will be unlike any other. Here’s some of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

By The Editors

September 11, 2020

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Soundtrack to an Encyclical

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Taming the Demon

D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

No Longer Peripheral

The 2020 Presidential Election