George W. Bush
Self Help
A fear that the United States not only has decisively lost its power in the region, but is also responsible for why everything seems to be going wrong.
American Innocence
'The Irony of American History' shines a klieg light on the so-called war on terror and the current debate over the operations of our “national security state."
A Language of Solidarity
Robert N. Bellah, who died in July, was a contributor to Commonweal for more than twenty years. Here are excerpts from some of his articles.
The False God of 'Narrative'
"What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there's a leak?" Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist...
Obama Needs to Hope Again
If a president finds himself in the role of a political scientist, he has a problem -- even when his political science lesson is 100 percent accurate.
When...
Broken Promises
On the evening of April 15—the day two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than two hundred eighty—President...
The Economic Whodunit
The policy mystery of our time is why politicians in the United States and across much of the democratic world are so obsessed with deficits when their primary...
Outside the Law
Jess Bravin’s The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantánamo Bay traces the vexed history of the military commissions at Guantánamo, established...
Unfriendly Skies
Polls show that the vast majority of Americans do not want armed drones circling their own neighborhoods. Who could blame us for not wanting to be taken out by a...
From a Distance
War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen. And even if it were a police...
Thwarted
Steven P. Millies
In the months since the 2012 presidential election, much attention has focused on how Republican fortunes have shifted because of demographic...
Reagan Is Obama's Touchstone
To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency, don't look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln. Obama's role model is Ronald Reagan -- and that...
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