Politics

It's time for Catholics to embrace parish-level commitments to environmental justice by getting our hands dirty—literally.

Erik Baker’s history of the entrepreneurial work ethic explores the unholy union between American psychology and American business.

As federal funding for scientific research declines, the shift to the private sector may spark innovation—but it also risks basic research slipping into the world of industrial secrets.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian assault on the country has drawn different responses from Democrats. For his part, Bernie Sanders has taken to the road on his "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."

The astronomical growth of sports gambling in the United States is a threat to young people, especially young men.

For novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the ambition to associate oneself with the universality that France symbolized was not in tension with the desire to tell the story of Latin America.

We need disaster preparedness more than ever. But instead, the Trump administration is cutting resilience and relief programs.

Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. But much unhappier is the land that needs heroes and doesn't get them.

We are collectively failing to notice what is happening in plain view: a full-scale authoritarian takeover of the federal government.

How did we end up with more than 75 million Americans willing to vote for a return to protectionism?

Under the Trump administration's book police, Jackie Robinson’s life and actions are considered dangerous memories.

Joseph Sorrentino revisits Mexico's endangered chinampería, and the people devoting their lives to save it.

How can we continue to imagine eschatological glimpses of hope, particularly when the events of the Passion continue happening in this world?

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The risk of nuclear war is higher now than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Catholic principles of just peace can move us back from the brink.

In Burma and Thailand, humble faith-based organizations respond to a humanitarian crisis borne of civil war, a devastating earthquake, and Trump's foreign-assistance cuts.

While history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme. Today's traditionalism parallels the Jansenist crisis in early modern Catholicism.

Lent is a season of reflection—but also a season to prepare for the work ahead, to sweep aside everything that has not worked and find new ways through the desert.

The United States has for too long fallen short on its moral and legal duty to pursue nuclear disarmament.

Cory Booker took a risk. Here’s hoping more Democrats—and the rest of civil society—follow his lead.

Trump and Vance display a profound failure to understand the hidden strengths of democracies—and the weaknesses of the authoritarian regimes they hope to emulate.

The leaked Trump administration group chat exemplified how Christian leaders use empty religious gestures as window dressing for war-making.

Far outside the political spotlight on elite universities, community-college students across America are learning the skills of democratic participation.

"We took a vote among our members and decided to hold a prayerful demonstration in front of the DHS headquarters on Ash Wednesday."

As Republican elected officials dodge their own voters, some Democrats are trying to fill the gap—but they'll need a lot more than “People's Town Halls” to win back trust.

Trump is bad enough without the thought that his rogue regime has been sent by God as some kind of punishment.

Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.

Antisemitism—which is rife in the Trump administration itself—is now being used as a pretext for an authoritarian assault on universities.

The God who sees the plight of migrants in the borderlands is the same God who spoke to Moses in Exodus.

In a country that’s supposed to be a model for free expression, journalism is under siege.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

Who would have thought an American president would make Neville Chamberlain look good?

"As a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, I feel as though I entered the Lenten season several months ago."

Modern progressivism suffers from three prejudices, each woven into our understanding of key values: equality, toleration, individual freedom, and scientific advancement.

In the wake of a refugee crisis from ongoing civil war in Burma, organizations educating stateless refugees in Thailand make do under severe strain.

Musa al-Gharbi's new book traces the rise of a new "woke" elite. His diagnosis minimizes the power of genuine elites: plutocrats.

Martin Marty was a prolific reader, a gifted synthesizer, and a titanic scholar of America's diverse religious traditions.

The Cybertruck is the vehicular love child of a SWAT truck and the Mars rover.

The partial solutions of Biden's economic program fell short of a foundation for a new social contract. But turning the page on Bidenism would be a mistake.

For all his wealth and power, J. D. Vance remains a bundle of insecurities—in many ways not yet a fully formed adult.

How do we learn to love our neighbors who defend the indefensible?

The Trump administration's decision to send migrants to Guantánamo was dehumanizing "performance art."

Why do startup bros need the alibi of poetry to launch their great extraction machines?