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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.”

If the working class is to become part of the Democratic Party coalition again, the frayed middle layers connecting elites and voters must be rebuilt.

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.

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.

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.

The uncompromising idealism of student protesters is rooted in social and economic isolation and detachment.

Pope Francis has gone further than any of his predecessors in recognizing the value of non-Christian traditions.

Gary Dorrien remembers his tumultuous adventures in post-Kantian philosophy and democratic socialist organizing.

A certain kind of obstinate weirdness is a first step to autocracy.

Have Catholic bishops, theologians, and laypeople forgotten how to speak to the public?

What matters more than anything is that Americans disappoint the GOP, which always hopes for a low turnout, and show up to the polls in record numbers.

In a Mexico City migrant encampment, conditions are staggeringly poor—and gaining entry to the United States is the ultimate hope.

J. D. Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' reconsidered.

"When I watched the January 6 riot unfold on television, I remember being glad my kids were in school; if they had been home, I would have turned it off."

Should Democrats define themselves through an appeal to "freedom"?

Christopher Hitchens was a champion detractor, a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising.

At their national convention in Chicago, Democrats adopted the more explicitly “patriotic” posture of an earlier era.

Will the Guantánamo cases ever be resolved?

Two excellent new books defend the liberal project with wisdom and clarity. So why do they yield such little hope?