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Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.

Antisemitism—which is rife in the Trump administration itself—is now being used as a pretext for an authoritarian assault on universities.

The God who sees the plight of migrants in the borderlands is the same God who spoke to Moses in Exodus.

In a country that’s supposed to be a model for free expression, journalism is under siege.

Can I still keep using this Catholic education to understand the world if I’m no longer Catholic? Can I even still ask the curriculum’s questions if I’m no longer professing the faith that animates them?

Twenty-five years ago, John Paul II’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land expressed hope for justice for both Israelis and Palestinians.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are. Alienation makes us present as closeness cannot.

Who would have thought an American president would make Neville Chamberlain look good?

"As a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, I feel as though I entered the Lenten season several months ago."

All of Bruce Chatwin's work is an effort to understand people who find themselves at the end of a way of being.

Modern progressivism suffers from three prejudices, each woven into our understanding of key values: equality, toleration, individual freedom, and scientific advancement.