Article The ‘Seamless Garment’ Makes a Comeback Ditching the consistent ethic of life model was a mistake, both tactically and morally By John Gehring January 19, 2018 Abortion Bishops Domestic Affairs
Article The Backlash Against Meanness Look to Wisconsin for proof that voters are tired of ‘us versus them’ politics By E. J. Dionne Jr. January 17, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Profits First, Workers Last The numbers don’t lie: tax cuts for the rich don’t lead to higher wages By Charles R. Morris January 17, 2018 Economy Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article How to Survive Trump Three proud progressives trace the historical roots of the Trump phenomenon to the collapse of a shared sense of national purpose By R. Scott Appleby January 16, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Books
Article Late-Night TV Turns Political A dangerously unserious president has put our professional joke-tellers in a serious mood By Celia Wren January 13, 2018 Media Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Television
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 Justice for Puerto Rico There is a chance to correct a long-standing injustice, but there needs to be the political will By Paul Moses January 6, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Bishops
Article Love & the Law We mustn’t forget C.G. Weeramantry’s Catholic (and catholic) view of justice in international law By William George January 5, 2018 Ethics Foreign Affairs
Article Madness to Their Method Daniel Ellsberg offers a peek inside the secret world of Cold War nuclear strategists By Andrew J. Bacevich January 3, 2018 Books War and Peace Ethics
Article Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility From our pages in 1962, Thomas Merton writes on the duty of Christians in apocalyptic times By Thomas Merton January 3, 2018 Foreign Affairs Ethics War and Peace
Article California Burning As fire season rages, a reflection on preparing for the worst By Jack Miles January 2, 2018 Domestic Affairs Environment Climate Change
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 A Problem Only Politics Can Solve Inequality will persist as long as we assume that the technocrats will eventually fix it for us By Matt Mazewski January 1, 2018 Economy Book Essay Books
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 A Report with Ramifications Recommendations from the final report of the Australian Royal Commission inquiry into sexual abuse cover celibacy and priestly formation By Massimo Faggioli December 20, 2017 Sexual-abuse Crisis Foreign Affairs Pope Francis Vatican II
Article Nothing Was Inevitable We need to rescue Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin from the clichés that have obscured them By John Lukacs December 18, 2017 War and Peace Foreign 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 Five Years after Newtown As for how we have progressed as a nation, I wish the picture were brighter By Rand Richards Cooper December 18, 2017 Domestic Affairs
Article Take It Down! In the museum world, 2017 will likely be remembered for controversies over exhibitions offending specific groups By Daniel Grant December 13, 2017 Domestic Affairs Arts Social Justice Race
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 Guadalupe & Generosity A saint’s prophecy of embrace vs. a nation’s refusal to offer one By Paul Moses December 11, 2017 Immigration Domestic Affairs Pope Francis Latin America
Article Not Worth a Cake? It’s hard to see how a baker’s claim to religious freedom doesn’t amount to discrimination By John Gehring December 7, 2017 LGBTQ issues Domestic Affairs Sexuality Supreme Court
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
Feature The Asylum to Our South People fleeing to Mexico from extreme violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador face major obstacles By Joseph Sorrentino December 4, 2017 Latin America Foreign Affairs
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 Keep Nonprofits Nonpartisan How lifting the Johnson Amendment would hurt churches By Paul Moses November 28, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump Bishops
Article What is the Basis for Human Equality? One of the most fundamental American tenets—that all human beings are created equal—is nowhere near universally accepted By Samuel Moyn November 28, 2017 Secularism and Modernity Ethics
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 Giving Thanks for Journalism Journalism, when it does what it is supposed to, is an essential restraint on abuses by the powers-that-be By E. J. Dionne Jr. November 22, 2017 Media
Article Watching the Left Castrate Itself What can the fin-de-Sixties teach us about the time of anti-Trump resistance? By Peter Steinfels November 21, 2017 Domestic Affairs Race War and Peace
Article Slow Down on Single Payer There’s a risk that Democrats will succumb to ideological groupthink By J. Peter Nixon November 21, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs
Article A Right Not to Fight Peace-seekers today face an opportunity By Bernard G. Prusak November 20, 2017 War and Peace Ethics
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
Feature Christians & the Death Penalty If the death penalty seems a just and proportionate response to willful murder, so what? That’s not a Christian view of reality By David Bentley Hart November 16, 2017 Books War and Peace Ethics Capital Punishment
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 Hardly a Triumph We really need to update how we imagine the Cold War period By Andrew J. Bacevich November 9, 2017 Foreign Affairs War and Peace
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 Demythologize the Gun We need sensible gun laws. We also need a collective examination of conscience. By John Gehring November 7, 2017 Domestic Affairs
Article Share This Protest While the horizontal nature of social media can be a solution to the problem of state- or elite-controlled media, it presents problems of its own By Regina Munch November 6, 2017 Books Foreign Affairs
Article Resistance, Then & Now Desperate times call for more than desperation By Jo McGowan November 6, 2017 Books Donald Trump
Feature Breaking the News Taking back journalism from algorithms is good for both democracy and the soul—but it’s not enough By Paul Horwitz November 5, 2017 Media
