Article The Vortex We are drifting toward a point where no one is willing to accept a politically inconvenient fact; where only useful fictions matter By RAND COOPER February 21, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Bias, ‘Brogrammers’ & Blind Spots Tech companies are dominated by a very particular type of person, and their influence can affect the culture at large By Regina Munch February 21, 2018 Domestic Affairs Media
Article Just a Dupe Even in the light most favorable to him, President Trump was the Russians’ dupe By Paul Moses February 20, 2018 Donald Trump Election 2016 Foreign Affairs
Feature Doubling Down on Nukes Judging by the new Nuclear Posture Review, the Pentagon proposes to embark upon an arms race—largely with itself By Andrew J. Bacevich February 19, 2018 Donald Trump War and Peace Domestic Affairs
Article The Scandal of Firing LGBT Catholics Punitive actions against LGBT Catholics do not reflect the fact that we are at a moment that requires prayerful discernment By John Gehring February 16, 2018 LGBTQ issues Sexuality U.S. Catholicism
Article Meeting the Stranger A Catholic response to refugees and immigration through the pages of Commonweal By The Editors February 14, 2018 Immigration
Article Fake News, Murder & the Philippine Bishops The bishops saw how manipulation of social media helps to build public support for the summary slaying of drug dealers By Paul Moses February 13, 2018 Foreign Affairs Bishops Pope Francis Media
Article The Quiet Revolution Western liberals continue to claim Emmanuel Macron as their champion. They shouldn't By Cole Stangler February 13, 2018 Foreign Affairs Immigration
Article Sound Familiar? The anti-immigrant animus here and in Europe reflects the spread of the same virus By RAND COOPER February 12, 2018 Immigration Race Donald Trump Foreign Affairs Domestic Affairs
Article Loving the Amish Patrick Deneen argues that liberalism is one of the great horrors of world history, but his form of conservatism cannot show us a way forward By Alan Wolfe February 12, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Books
Feature No More Nukes? Are we at last on the eve of the postnuclear millennium? By Michael C. Desch, Gerard F. Powers February 9, 2018 War and Peace Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Pope Francis
Article Heavy on Bluster, Thin on Facts There is something particularly galling about Catholic members of the Trump administration leading or enabling anti-immigrant policies and xenophobia By John Gehring February 8, 2018 Immigration Race Domestic Affairs
Feature When Are a Candidate’s Religious Beliefs Relevant? Ask the politicians: How will religious values inform your political decisions? By Eric Luckey February 6, 2018 Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism Secularism and Modernity
Article Will the Nunes Memo Sway Public Opinion? The memo that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released last week reads like a motion to suppress evidence in an upcoming trial By Paul Moses February 5, 2018 Donald Trump Media Foreign Affairs
Article Even the Fines Are Deductible After selling trillions of fraudulent securities and almost triggering a 1929-scale Depression, how did no one from the world’s greatest banks go to prison? By Charles R. Morris February 3, 2018 Economy Social Justice Domestic Affairs Ethics
Article Should Democrats Have Sat Through the State of the Union? What would Democrats have lost by not showing up? By Matthew Sitman February 1, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Fraudster in Chief How New Yorkers are dealing with the Trump presidency By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels January 30, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Columnists
Article A Cloud over Xanadu I can enjoy Mexico, but millions of Mexicans in the United States cannot By Gordon Marino January 30, 2018 Latin America Immigration Race Donald Trump
Article Speed Up on Single Payer Our first concern should be health care for all By John Marty January 29, 2018 Health Care Domestic Affairs Social Justice Economy Continuing the Conversation
Article Life in a Shithole Country Reflections from a beautiful, so-called "shithole country," where they know a shithole style of leadership when they smell one By RAND COOPER January 27, 2018 Donald Trump Race Foreign Affairs Domestic Affairs
Article Fake News & the Gospel Truth Rather than blame “fake news” on professional journalists, Pope Francis enlists them as “the protectors of news.” What is a journalist’s role? By Paul Moses January 25, 2018 Media Pope Francis Donald Trump
Article Peaceful Solidarity Lessons from the greatest example of interfaith peace activism in our nation’s history By Patrick Henry January 24, 2018 War and Peace Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism Social Justice
Article Time to Take Responsibility Lawmakers must prevent the White House from drawing us into another war By The Editors January 23, 2018 Donald Trump War and Peace Middle East Domestic Affairs Editorial Terrorism
Article Our Old, Harsh Immigration Laws Are New Again As Congress looks to overhaul immigration, they are just extending old injustices By Paul Moses January 22, 2018 Domestic Affairs Immigration Donald Trump
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 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
