Election 2020

Article

Polarized & Fragmented

The split between hardline Trump loyalists and the rest of the country continues to widen, with the same fracturing mirrored in Germany and the United Kingdom.

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

October 31, 2019

Article

Making the Rich Pay

Studies show that the rich tend to be less empathetic and more selfish. Electoral politics, and policy change, is a promising way to take back what they’ve stolen.

October 30, 2019

Article

The Housing Crisis for Teachers

Public goods need and deserve public protection and support. Doesn’t this mean, at a minimum, making sure that teachers earn enough to pay the rent?

October 29, 2019

Article

Making America OK

Who is up to governing this rattled country on January 20, 2021? Whichever candidate emerges from the crowded Democratic field has much work ahead of them.

By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels

October 28, 2019

Election 2020

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Borderlands & Barrios

We talk to Benjamin Francis-Fallon about his new book, The Rise of the Latino Vote. And the Commonweal staff speaks about what they witnessed at the border in El Paso, Texas.

Article

Where Impeachment Might Lead

It seems likely that Democrats’ inquiry will result in impeachment? But would such charges actually lead to Trump’s removal from office?

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

October 16, 2019

Donald Trump

Foreign Affairs

Election 2020

Must Reads

Politics

The Future of American Labor

Organized labor was once the backbone of American democracy. A new book argues that the future of collective bargaining requires adaptation to new economies.

By Joseph A. McCartin

October 28, 2019

Religion

Rawls & Theodicy

Did liberalism originate in a kind of theodicy? And is there any reason to suppose that egalitarian liberalism is or has to be theological? Not necessarily.

By Samuel Moyn

October 30, 2019

Culture

Unmagical Realism

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez wanted to be known more for his journalistic prose than his novels. A new collection reveals the flaws of that desire.

By Catherine Addington

October 31, 2019

Books

Self-Reflection

Recent nonfiction increasingly takes ego as starting point. Jia Tolentino and Leslie Jamison use self-aware essays to examine popular culture and female experience.

By Katherine Lucky

October 9, 2019

Books

Saying the Unsayable

Poet and novelist Fanny Howe is an experimental writer’s experimental writer, the author of dozens of books, one who remains publicly, committedly Catholic.

By Anthony Domestico

September 27, 2019

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019