The House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better bill on the morning of November 19. Assuming it will also pass the Senate, this...

I’m delighted by the bipartisan enactment of the Investment and Jobs Act. It includes major components that will disproportionately...

The Poverty, God, Politics videos that I’m releasing this fall focus on effective ways to connect faith to the politics of poverty. They...

Big things are happening now in our nation and for me personally. Congress is negotiating a transformational recovery package, including...

These 17 Republican senators and all the Democratic senators voted together last night to begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure...

From the Sunday after Easter to the 4th of July, I’ve published the Poverty, God, Politics series of webcasts and companion blog posts....

The Catholic bishops this week took a step toward denying communion to President Biden. John Carr’s insightful, 32-minute discussion of...

President Biden has this week launched an international initiative to bring COVID under control all over the world. We know from his...

What an honor to receive an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross. My brief remarks encouraged the students and their...

Long-term polling data indicates that political participation among low-income and less educated voters has been consistently low for...

How familiar are you with President Biden’s economic recovery proposals? Have you thought through the big economic decisions our nation’s...

I’m encouraged by examples of low-income people and people of color becoming more active and influential in U.S. politics. This is a...

African Americans turned out to vote in 2020 and tipped the results of the election in several swing states. They now have influence and...

President Biden’s first big piece of legislation, the American Rescue Plan, is already delivering very substantial help to low-income...

This is an unusually personal post. Eight months after retiring from Bread for the World, I’m now teaching in Berkeley and, at the same...

U.S. policies have shifted more to the benefit of poor and near-poor people in President Biden’s first month than in any month in the...

Donald Trump consistently does what’s in his self-interest. We’ve come to know him and must expect that he will do everything he can to...

The nation is exhausted by COVID and now more deeply divided by President Trump’s shameless challenge to the election results. But in the...

I’m excited to share that I’ve been appointed a Joint Fellow by Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and the Church Divinity School...

I am grateful for the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in the early days of this dangerous post-election...