Article When Religion Is Prophetic American nuns make clear that faith is something more than a cog in the status quo’s political machine. By E. J. Dionne Jr. July 31, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Health Care Domestic Affairs
Article A Forceful Essay Hits a Nerve Spadaro and Figueroa identify pathologies in U.S. conservative Catholicism that need to be cured By Anthony Annett July 28, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Pope Francis Pope John Paul II Web Exclusive
Article The Religious Right & Wrong There’s a legitimate critique to be made of conservative U.S. Catholics, but on that score the Spadaro-Figueroa essay misses the mark By The Editors July 25, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Contraception mandate Abortion
Article Woe to the Texas Attorney General! Bishop Seitz stirs the pot for undocumented workers By John Gehring July 24, 2017 Immigration Bishops Domestic Affairs
Article Why We Should Worry About Trump’s Election Commission The commission issued a sweeping request to the states for data By E. J. Dionne Jr. July 24, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Welcoming Debate on ‘Militant’ Media Bearing witness, or peddling claims antithetical to Catholic teaching? By Paul Moses July 21, 2017 Media Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article His Bleak Materials Characters in the fiction of J. F. Powers reveal the limitations and consolations of belief, and his work affirms his faith even as it challenges it By Jeffrey Meyers July 18, 2017 Books Priesthood Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism
Article The Democrats’ Religion Problem A survey shows the sharp contrast between how Republicans and Democrats treat religion By Paul Moses July 13, 2017 Barack Obama Domestic Affairs Secularism and Modernity
Article Allies for Democracy? Both the democratic right and left wings are supposed to agree on the importance of democracy, the gifts of modernity, and the value of pluralism By E. J. Dionne Jr. July 10, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Keep the Leaks Coming, Please Democracy depends on them, as the Founding Fathers seemed to know By Paul Moses July 7, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article States to Trump’s Election ‘Integrity’ Commission: Count Us Out Bipartisan resistance to the specious plan for combating nonexistent voter fraud, as there should be By Dominic Preziosi July 6, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Election 2016 Race
Article Will There Be Due Process for Immigrants? The Jennings decision will help to define the answer By Paul Moses June 29, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Immigration
Article The Republicans’ Scandalous Health-Care Bill A worldview that puts profits before people and rich donors before human decency By John Gehring June 27, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Social Justice Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article Capitalism without Tears If regulations are the cause of so many business failures, why do other businesses in the same sector continue to survive and prosper? By unagidon June 27, 2017 Economy Domestic Affairs Web Exclusive
Feature Should We Want the Center to Hold? These are times that call less for moderation than for telling the truth By Matthew Sitman June 26, 2017 Economy Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Ethics
Article Just Build It How the Trump administration's approach to infrastructure is woefully inadequate By The Editors June 21, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Economy
Article On Tyranny & Politics Where are the politicians with social democratic instincts who do more than draw enormous crowds? By Paul Baumann June 20, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Economy Web Exclusive
Article Gutting Health Care in Darkness There’s a reason for the Republican’s secrecy: They’ll have to gut insurance for a lot of people to pay for tax cuts for the rich By E. J. Dionne Jr. June 15, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs Economy Columnists Social Justice
Article Northern Light Amina came to the U.S. seeking asylum, but bureaucratic delays and the election of Donald Trump convinced her to flee to Canada By Laurie Johnston June 13, 2017 Immigration Domestic Affairs Social Justice Donald Trump
Article Catholicism & the Environment Selected Commonweal stories on Catholicism and climate change By The Editors June 8, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Economy Environment Pope Francis Secularism and Modernity
Article A Constitutionally Impossible Relationship You do stupid things when you act like an autocrat in a constitutional democracy By E. J. Dionne Jr. June 8, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Not the ‘Age of Trump’ What is actually going on is something that Donald Trump hasn’t, won’t, and can’t affect By Andrew J. Bacevich June 2, 2017 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Secularism and Modernity
Article Why Health Care Won’t Be a Free Market Two missing ingredients: transparency on price, and transparency on quality By unagidon June 1, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs
Feature Just War? Just-war teaching has distracted Catholics from learning and practicing strategic nonviolence. At times it has excused them from even trying By Gerald W. Schlabach May 31, 2017 U.S. Catholicism War and Peace Ethics Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article With Intent to Suppress Equal access to the voting booth is in jeopardy By The Editors May 30, 2017 Domestic Affairs Supreme Court Race Editorial Donald Trump
Article An Illegal Immigrant How my family was allowed to come to the United States, despite our Jewish origins By John Tytell May 22, 2017 Immigration Domestic Affairs
Article The Catholic Imagination, Then & Now In the days of Fortress Catholicism, Catholic literary things were not as good as people may think; things are not as bad today as they fear By Paul Baumann May 20, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs
Article To the University, with Love Tolerance for intellectual pain is less than it was; so is tolerance for argument By Paul J. Griffiths May 18, 2017 Higher Education Domestic Affairs
Article The Truth & Trump Donald Trump is both indifferent to and ignorant of the norms and traditions of democratic governance By The Editors May 15, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Trump’s Comey Misfire Is Mitch McConnell really sure he wants to stand with a man who will spew out attacks on anyone who gets in his way? By E. J. Dionne Jr. May 10, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article Is Science ‘True’? Acknowledge the factors that can influence the scientific enterprise By Regina Munch May 9, 2017 Environment Secularism and Modernity Domestic Affairs
Article The Door of No Return Faithful Christians were responsible for Elmina, for St. George’s Castle. They worshipped God in the midst of utter depravity. By Richard Brown May 8, 2017 U.S. Catholicism Domestic Affairs Race The Last Word
Article Women & Children Last Why Republicans are wrong to treat prenatal care as a luxury By Agnes R. Howard May 8, 2017 Health Care Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article Republican Heaven Taxes, inequality, and the rise of the 0.01 percent By Charles R. Morris May 8, 2017 Economy Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Poverty Columnists
Article Free-Market Folly Donald Trump’s economic program may fit comfortably with free-market ideas, but it conflicts with Catholic social thought By Charles Wilber May 8, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Social Justice Economy Bishops
Article The King of Debt A tax plan that saves the Trumps a lot money, and that costs the federal government far more By The Editors May 8, 2017 Donald Trump Economy Domestic Affairs Social Justice Editorial
Article Video: Catholics & Politics in the Age of Trump Watch our May 1 Commonweal Conversations panel, Catholics & Politics in the Age of Trump By The Editors May 4, 2017 Donald Trump Economy Domestic Affairs Immigration Social Justice
Article Jimmy Kimmel’s Philosophy Lesson For those who advocate health care for all, a monologue to memorize like a catechism answer By E. J. Dionne Jr. May 4, 2017 Domestic Affairs Health Care Columnists Ethics Social Justice Web Exclusive
Article The Free Banquet Without a radical new approach to economic security, we’re headed for a bureaucratic morass or for a ‘Blade Runner,’ devil-take-the-hindmost world By George Scialabba May 3, 2017 Economy Books Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Social Justice
Article What Trump Has Wrought Trump’s unerring knack for making everything worse whenever he opens his mouth By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly May 2, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article The Faith Community & Climate Change Dan Misleh of the Catholic Climate Covenant talks about climate justice, Donald Trump, and green parishes By John Gehring April 27, 2017 Environment Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Web Exclusive Climate Change
Article Destined to Lead? Robert Kaplan’s travel book ‘Earning the Rockies’ is, among other things, an introduction to Trump’s America By James J. Sheehan April 24, 2017 Donald Trump Books Domestic Affairs
Article The Government Is Not a Trump Property How long will get away with denying conflicts of interest? By E. J. Dionne Jr. April 20, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists Ethics
Article Remembering John T. Noonan A man whose “contributions to both the bench and the academy are prodigious” By The Editors April 20, 2017 Abortion Contraception mandate Domestic Affairs Ethics Vatican II U.S. Catholicism Capital Punishment
Article The Trump Touch Is America safer when agents spend hours interrogating an American citizen with no criminal record or terrorist associations? By Lubana Adi April 17, 2017 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Immigration Muslim-Christian Relations
Article All Politics Is Local Anaïs Mitchell captures our country’s characteristic restiveness while hinting at its uncertain future By Regina Munch April 6, 2017 Music Domestic Affairs
Article Trump & the Bear in the Woods Why does the U.S. president speak with such warmth about a Russian autocrat? By E. J. Dionne Jr. April 3, 2017 Foreign Affairs Donald Trump Domestic Affairs Columnists
Article Faith at Angola Prison After ‘civic death,’ a resurrection By Michael Hallett March 30, 2017 Spirituality Domestic Affairs Social Justice
Article Failure, Bigly Seven years of demagogic attacks and disingenuous promises on health care end in ruin By The Editors March 29, 2017 Editorial Domestic Affairs Health Care Donald Trump
Article Contraception & Cooperation Questions around the ethics of cooperation in wrongdoing—especially in regard to the contraceptive mandate—can't be set aside By Bernard G. Prusak March 27, 2017 Contraception mandate Health Care Supreme Court Ethics Domestic Affairs
