Politics

Deeply committed to the principles of Catholic social teaching, Archbishop Roberto González Nieves has been a moral voice on every major social issue in Puerto Rico in the past generation.

'Daybreak in Gaza' captures the persistence of Gazan life and culture amid unrelenting suffering.

"Ramos and Baldelomar speak as if Latino identity were currently diseased. But our history, while indeed plagued by some bad ideas, is also full of antibodies."

Highlighting the link between family unity and immigration might be a way to sway the hearts of conservative Catholics who’ve fallen for Trump’s vile claims against immigrants.

"Christians ought to oppose idolatry of the state and the military by being an alternative to the politics of war."

How an old rivalry between ‘Commonweal’ and the Brooklyn 'Tablet’ prefigures today’s Catholic media wars

The Trump campaign capitalized on the opportunity to reach groups of voters that Democratic leaders have taken for granted. Latinos are one such group.

Few filmmakers capture, as Sean Baker does, the full scope of the degradation caused by the unchecked pursuit of wealth.

Concerns about the ethical production of clothing fit well into what the Church already speaks about.

Auden’s self-portrait as a lonely exile was accurate, but only for part of his life. In his youth, he was firmly identified with England.

Kant’s work was considered such a threat to Church teachings that even scholars needed special permission from their bishop or religious superior to consult it.

The problem is not really that we can’t focus. The problem is that we can’t prioritize.

It was always going to be difficult for an incumbent vice president to convincingly present herself as an agent of change at a moment when change is exactly what people were demanding.

The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

The 2024 election has shown definitively that what ails us as a country is a chronic condition, not a passing distemper.

What might J. D. Vance’s ascendancy to the vice presidency tell us about American Catholicism?

One is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump.

"For me, Holy Week 1971 was unusual. I spent it in jail. As a representative of Commonweal."

To have remained an independent journal of opinion for one hundred years is to have “made history,” and—in Commonweal’s case—impressively so.

John T. McGreevy celebrates Commonweal's hundredth year with a look back.

The election results should finally put to rest the idea that the country’s shifting demographics will automatically benefit Democrats.

“You can’t move!” John protested. “We have work to do.”

The Democratic Party has to find a way not to be the party of bicoastal elites.

We have to fight for the good of everyone in this country, quelling their well-founded fears and showing the way out of unfounded ones.

"For now, I am holding it together by redoubling my commitment to living in a way that cuts against Trump's cynicism, fear mongering, and braggadocio."

The Supreme Court's Catholic majority obscures both history and Church teaching to advance its right-wing agenda.

The dream of rescuing democracy from the people has been dreamed—and smashed.

New books by Tyler Anbinder and Harold Holzer explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.

What does 'Commonweal' offer in this perilous religious and political moment?

Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey was a born showman—and a born opportunist.

"The history of Commonweal is a history of hope and confidence."

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

It will be the job of Commonweal, as it always has been, to resist the pressures of contemporary secular culture.

… us to the future, to new ways of relating to our fellow human beings and the earth. This … especially in its reflections on finding peace in the long shadow of abuse. It also … reason that we are alive. We can forget, forgive, have mercy. The mode of life itself …

What can inspire a return to faith beyond a cultural-fortress mentality?

The seeds of peace will be planted in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East when justice comes for the people of Palestine.

Independent senate candidate and union leader Dan Osborn hopes to revive blue-collar populism in deep-red Nebraska.

Jason Blakely treats ideology as an orienting worldview, something none of us can do without. But this understanding neglects the role of power.

It's about time faithful Catholics in America embrace their political homelessness.

Patrick MacGill was a self-taught polymath, a celebrated poet and fiction-writer. He was also my grandfather.

Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.

Hamilton Nolan's new book chronicles the struggles of the labor movement. But it takes more than heroic individuals to build power—it takes the government, too.

Eric Adams embodies the upwardly mobile hopes of many New Yorkers living in neighborhoods far from the centers of wealth and power—making his tenure as mayor all the more disappointing.

Immigration and climate change are inextricably linked, and will only become more entangled every year.