Donald Trump isn’t normally thought of as a consensus-builder, but in one sense that’s exactly what he is. Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political movement with a clear and defined set of principles and goals. They disagree only on whether ...

Walking through Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island, I came upon a moss-covered monolith listing the Ten Commandments. This was some time ago, but knowing the objections then being made to placing religious artifacts in public places, I thought, “This stone won’t be here for ...

A few weeks ago, at a rally in Nevada, Trump told his followers that boat manufacturers are now required to use electric engines. He claimed that someone at a boat company in South Carolina told him, “It’s a problem, sir. They want us to make all-electric boats.” (There is no such ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in 1940 was 50 times larger than that of Finland’s. Finland’s former anti-Soviet ally, Nazi ...

When does political protest seem to become an end in itself? Climate firebrand Greta Thunberg, 21, seems to  raise that question when looking at photos of her arrest last month outside the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden. Wearing a black-and-white keffiyeh scarf and shouting, ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in the presidential immunity case Trump v. United States issued on July 1 has made clear what’s at stake in the November elections. It’s whether the American republic survives. Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas Law School has written: “The ...