Article Paul Ryan’s Curdled Idealism Paul Ryan will step down from the House speakership as the personification of conservatism’s decline By E. J. Dionne Jr. April 11, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
Article American Distrust Can the country’s tribal differences be bridged? By Kevin B. Sullivan March 30, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article Goodness & Greatness What does a shrine to national greatness mean when a nation has given up on pursuing goodness? By Patrick Whelan March 29, 2018 Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Donald Trump
Article The Courts v. Cheaters Within forty-eight hours, Americans were offered two fast courses in the politics of cheating By E. J. Dionne Jr. March 28, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump
Article When Pragmatism is Principle It is crucial for Democrats to sort out which candidates are truly electable By E. J. Dionne Jr. March 19, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Columnists
Article Populism Isn’t the Villain Blaming populism for the crisis in liberal democracy risks mistaking the symptom for the cause By E. J. Dionne Jr. March 8, 2018 Domestic Affairs Foreign Affairs Donald Trump
Article A Bishop Against Border Fences Standing with immigrants against the militarization of the border makes moral and factual sense By John Gehring March 8, 2018 Immigration Bishops U.S. Catholicism Donald Trump
Article Is God in This Picture? Championing a man like Trump in the name of the culture wars will only lead to the decline of Christian influence in America By The Editors March 6, 2018 Donald Trump Secularism and Modernity Domestic Affairs Editorial
Article Servants of the NRA Why do so many politicians refuse to talk about gun control? By E. J. Dionne Jr. February 26, 2018 Domestic Affairs Donald Trump Columnists
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 Richards Cooper February 21, 2018 Donald Trump Domestic Affairs
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 Strike 3? Editor Paul Baumann responds to a reader who considers Commonweal “elitist” By Paul Baumann February 15, 2018 Donald Trump Media U.S. Catholicism
Article Sound Familiar? The anti-immigrant animus here and in Europe reflects the spread of the same virus By Rand Richards 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
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 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 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 Richards 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 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 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 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 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 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 Hard to Watch Even when it’s easy to spot the racism that poisons parts of them, the more pertinent question is what makes some of these films engrossing even now By Richard Alleva December 19, 2017 Movies Race Donald Trump Domestic 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 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 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
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 Another Day, Another Offender It’s satisfying to see the sexual misconduct of powerful men exposed, but will the norms of the ordinary workplace really change? By Rand Richards Cooper November 29, 2017 Sexuality 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 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 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
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 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 Resistance, Then & Now Desperate times call for more than desperation By Jo McGowan November 6, 2017 Books Donald Trump
