Article Resist & Be Not Afraid Our current president pushes us toward fear, insecurity, and selfishness, but the gospel says otherwise By John Gehring January 11, 2018 Donald Trump Immigration Race Domestic Affairs Bishops
Article How Trump Politicizes MS-13 In the Trump worldview, support for immigrants is tantamount to backing a violent gang By Paul Moses January 10, 2018 Immigration Donald Trump Race Domestic Affairs
Article On Fire, Fury...& Decency? Can Republicans do the right thing and confront the danger of Trump’s chaotic presidency? By The Editors January 9, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Editorial
Article An Interview with Archbishop Wilton Gregory John Gehring spoke to Archbishop Wilton Gregory about race and racism, immigration, and the shifting geographic center of the U.S. church By John Gehring January 2, 2018 Race Donald Trump Sexual-abuse Crisis Bishops
Article Resolutions for Containing Trump in 2018 The priority of 2018 is for our nation to rise up and say: Enough By E. J. Dionne Jr. January 1, 2018 Donald Trump
Article How Christmas Was Trumpified Trump managed to weaponize the season with branding that turned Christmas upside down By Paul Moses December 28, 2017 Donald Trump
Article The ‘What’s-In-It-for-Me’ Tax Bill A one-two punch that will not only limit government’s ability to help those in need, but also hamper the vital work that nonprofits do By Paul Moses December 21, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Economy Health Care Poverty Social Justice Bishops
Article Hard to Watch Even when it’s easy to spot the racism that poisons parts of them, the more pertinent question is what makes some of these films engrossing even now By Richard Alleva December 19, 2017 Movies Race Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article A Recipe for Autocracy When Republicans are FBI haters who are sidetracking probes into Russian subversion, the world truly is turned upside down By E. J. Dionne Jr. December 18, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Salt in the Wound Trump’s pointless “recognition of reality” on Jerusalem does nothing to advance the cause of peace or security in the Middle East By The Editors December 12, 2017 Donald Trump Editorial Middle East Foreign Affairs
Article What Now? The future, toward which hope is always oriented, seems bleak. But grace can break through By The Editors December 5, 2017 Spirituality Donald Trump War and Peace Editorial
Article Can Trump Voters See It Now? Faith is faith—even a bankrupt, cynical, and desperate faith in a bankrupt, cynical, and desperate man By Rand Richards Cooper December 4, 2017 Donald Trump Election 2016
Article Government by the Reckless, for the Wealthy Scrutiny was this tax bill's greatest foe By E. J. Dionne Jr. December 2, 2017 Domestic Affairs Economy Donald Trump
Article Another Day, Another Offender It’s satisfying to see the sexual misconduct of powerful men exposed, but will the norms of the ordinary workplace really change? By Rand Richards Cooper November 29, 2017 Sexuality Donald Trump
Article Keep Nonprofits Nonpartisan How lifting the Johnson Amendment would hurt churches By Paul Moses November 28, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump Bishops
Article Out of Balance Is there a ‘diplomacy gap’ between the Vatican and the U.S.? By Massimo Faggioli November 27, 2017 Donald Trump U.S. Catholicism Bishops
Article Nope to Hope Ta-Nahisi Coates argues that racism–more than class, non-voters, stupidity, and unemployment–is fundamental to Trump’s victory By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels November 20, 2017 Books Barack Obama Race Donald Trump Columnists Domestic Affairs
Article Democrats, Stop the Infighting We have work to do By E. J. Dionne Jr. November 20, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article The Thing It Absolutely Is There is an easy explanation for mass shootings: Guns By Rand Richards Cooper November 18, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article Mass Murder & the Philippine Church Rodrigo Duterte criticizes the Catholic Church to discredit any institution that may challenge his murderous regime. By Paul Moses November 15, 2017 Foreign Affairs Bishops Donald Trump
Article The Rich Keep Themselves Rich Tax cuts and offshore loopholes should not allow the wealthy to evade their responsibility for the public good By The Editors November 14, 2017 Editorial Economy Ethics Social Justice Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Jeff Flake on Trump’s ‘Moral Vandalism’ A lifelong liberal thanks Jeff Flake By Rand Richards Cooper November 9, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article Voters Move On from Trumpism Forget those repetitious tales about some piece of President Trump’s base still sticking with him By E. J. Dionne Jr. November 8, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Resistance, Then & Now Desperate times call for more than desperation By Jo McGowan November 6, 2017 Books Donald Trump
Article The Dirt in the FBI’s Unsealed Documents There’s a link between the Trump campaign and people associated with the Russian government By Paul Moses October 30, 2017 Donald Trump Foreign Affairs
Article The Tax Cut Debate Is a Waste The U.S. does not need tax cuts now By E. J. Dionne Jr. October 30, 2017 Domestic Affairs Economy Donald Trump
Article Burqas & American Blasphemy I don’t foresee burqa bans here any time soon, but travel bans are bad enough By Rand Richards Cooper October 26, 2017 Race Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article The Trump Party? Despite dissenting voices from within his own party, a study shows how Trump’s approval ratings are still high among the GOP electorate By E. J. Dionne Jr. October 25, 2017 Domestic Affairs Columnists Donald Trump
Article Sacred Things John Kelly’s dark view of American politics and society may be closer than anyone suspected to that of his boss By The Editors October 24, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump War and Peace
Article The Real Dangers of Rescinding DACA Many Dreamers would be in grave danger if they were deported By Thomas Boerman October 24, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Social Justice Immigration
Article Who Suffers When Trump & Ryan Destabilize the ACA? Paul Ryan has accomplished much more in confirming his budgetary authority than in helping to get people health care By Paul Moses October 17, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article The Man Who Knew Too Little Journalists shouldn’t pretend that Trump understands his job By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly October 9, 2017 Donald Trump Media Domestic Affairs
Article Taunting a Tyrant Trump’s childish insults are dangerous with an adversary like Kim Jong-un, who is as thin-skinned, bombastic, and impetuous as our president By The Editors October 3, 2017 Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Editorial War and Peace
Article America’s Worst Mass Shooting, Until the Next One Please, no more thoughts and prayers. Instead, do something By Rand Richards Cooper October 2, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article No More Composure For Donald Trump, the public presidential self has not only been elided into the personal one; it seemingly has been dispensed with altogether By Rand Richards Cooper September 29, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article The Rich Are Different from You and Me Can we just be ‘intellectually honest’ about it? By Paul Baumann September 11, 2017 Donald Trump Election 2016
Article Bannon Tries to Drive a Wedge in the Church Amateur theologian, shrewd strategist: the former insider knows how to draw on fear of immigration By John Gehring September 8, 2017 Donald Trump U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Immigration
Article The Deluge Natural disasters like Harvey underscore once again the importance of a functioning government By The Editors September 6, 2017 Climate Change Environment Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article White Catholics & Nativism For Catholic immigrants, it’s been a struggle to get the support of fellow Catholics By Paul Moses September 1, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Race Donald Trump
Article We Can’t Think Straight about Government Events like Harvey show why it’s misleading to think that conservatives are for “small government” and liberals are for “big government” By E. J. Dionne Jr. August 31, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article A Big Wet Kiss to Bigots What will be the costs of President Trump’s stubbornly obtuse assignment of blame for Charlottesville and his comforting of white-supremacist afflicters? By Don Wycliff August 24, 2017 Race Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article Above Old Bones A mysterious graveyard and settlement suggests hidden depths within our country's history and in our own memories By Mark Phillips August 23, 2017 Race Election 2016 Donald Trump
Article After Charlottesville Changing the hearts and minds of white Americans about racial injustice in this country cannot be done by wielding a gun or a club By The Editors August 23, 2017 Race Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article What Bannon’s Departure Says about Trump’s Ideas Trump’s populism has always been a ruse By E. J. Dionne Jr. August 19, 2017 Donald Trump Race Foreign Affairs Economy War and Peace
Article End the Denial about Trump There are not, as Trump insisted, “many sides” to this problem By E. J. Dionne Jr. August 14, 2017 Race Donald Trump
Article The Worst of Options Donald Trump’s appalling approach to North Korea is just what we don’t need By E. J. Dionne Jr. August 10, 2017 Columnists Donald Trump Foreign Affairs War and Peace
Article A Forceful Essay Hits a Nerve Spadaro and Figueroa identify pathologies in U.S. conservative Catholicism that need to be cured By Anthony Annett July 28, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Pope Francis Pope John Paul II Web Exclusive
Article The Religious Right & Wrong There’s a legitimate critique to be made of conservative U.S. Catholics, but on that score the Spadaro-Figueroa essay misses the mark By The Editors July 25, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Contraception mandate Abortion
Article Why We Should Worry About Trump’s Election Commission The commission issued a sweeping request to the states for data By E. J. Dionne Jr. July 24, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Welcoming Debate on ‘Militant’ Media Bearing witness, or peddling claims antithetical to Catholic teaching? By Paul Moses July 21, 2017 Media Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
