Matthew Sitman

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Abortion

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

Helping & Hurting

The first Democratic debates featured a flawed format. The progressive vision of Sanders and Warren set the tone, but Harris, Buttigieg, and Castro also stood out.

June 28, 2019

Article

Gossip & Insight

Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.

December 15, 2018

Must Reads

Politics

Socialism or Feudalism

In today’s hypercapitalist society, the rich don’t just get richer. They accumulate more political power as they bend laws to their will.

By Frank Pasquale

June 15, 2020

Religion

A Different Kind of Catholic

Longtime peace activist Martin Gugino represents a face of Catholicism that Donald Trump would not know from the ‘powerful’ Catholics around him.

By Paul Moses

June 16, 2020

Culture

Working for Justice Means Taking Sides

Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.

By Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

June 9, 2020

Books

Home Songs

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.

By Isabella Simon

June 12, 2020

Collections

The Coronavirus

COVID-19 has profoundly affected our daily lives. Catch up with some of Commonweal’s best writing on the political and spiritual ramifications of the virus.

By The Editors

April 21, 2020