Regina Munch

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.

I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

An article from one of America's leading Catholic publications.

The Cruelty Inside The Trump administration is constructing a network of concentration camps on U.S. soil. Have the American people seen enough?

Get mad, get organized, say no to your local concentration camp.

www.commonwealmagazine.org/munch-trump-...

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

Where do I go to get my apology from all the folks on both sides and center of the political spectrum who insisted Trump wasn't a warmonger or imperialist and would be different to the Democrats and Republicans and (especially) neocons who came before him?

In This House We Believe Expressing rage and group-identity can’t be the end of political communication. I worry that for too many privileged people, it is.

"I still wonder about the point of a flag or a sign or a bumper sticker. Is it to express frustration or to change people’s minds?"

@regmunch.bsky.social takes a look at some pretty bad anti-Trump slogans:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-politi...

Canary in a Coal Mine What is happening in Los Angeles is not normal. Every American in every state needs to understand this. It may not stop here.

"What is happening in Los Angeles is not normal. Every American in every state needs to understand this. It may not stop here."

@claudiaavilac.bsky.social writes from LA:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/politics-imm...

The Anti-vaxxers Take Over Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines," but as secretary of HSS, he is steadily dismantling our national vaccine infrastructure.

"Immunity from preventable diseases will suddenly become unaffordable, and many poor children will go unvaccinated."

@regmunch.bsky.social on Robert F. Kennedy's crusade against vaccination:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/anti-vaxxers...

Very excited to contribute to the Point!

"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."

May 2025

My review of Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities out now in @commonweal.bsky.social

More important topics covered in the issue: US deportation violences, the natural-birth movement, environmental justice

www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...

In which a pregnant lady gets very worked up about the advice to "trust your body."

The May issue is here!
Feat.
- @paulelie.bsky.social on crypto-Catholicism in the 80s
- @regmunch.bsky.social on the natural-birth movement
- @drwclvrt.bsky.social on the entrepreneurial work ethic
- The Editors on Trump's offshore gulag
and much more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...

Get in, loser, we're defeating death and sin

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

Honored to be appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social soon with guest host @brigidbergin.bsky.social - another great 100-yr-old NYC institution, just like @commonweal.bsky.social !

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

🚨🚨🚨New from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:

“The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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

Tesla’s Cybertruck is a hard, ugly car for a hard, ugly age.

@susanbreynolds.bsky.social: 'The Apocalypse Machine'
www.commonwealmagazine.org/musk-elon-cy...

Here's a conversation I enjoyed with Tom Robbins on his WBAI Radio show "Deadline, NYC." What happened to Bob Menendez? I recalled him as a young man who demonstrated much integrity when he started his career in Union City, N.J., where I was a cub reporter. www.wbai.org/archive/prog...

The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’ A special episode about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations.

A special episode of the COMMONWEAL PODCAST about how the Catholic Church is responding to the Trump administration’s ‘crackdown’ on migrants and its plans for mass deportations.

Feat. @massimofaggioli.bsky.social, Kerry Robinson, and Cardinal Cupich:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/new-...

I had a great conversation with James Chappel about his new book on aging in the US. We've been so successful at improving the lives of older people in the last century, but we've also failed to build on that success.

The Case Against Consolidation Buying stuff has become the primary way Americans engage with strangers in public.

Regina Munch explains how we traded away our democracy for cheap stuff:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/anti-trust-c...

Happily Ever After? Is incentivizing marriage the cure for America's social ills?

Is incentivizing marriage the cure for America's social ills?
www.commonwealmagazine.org/happily-ever...