LUNENBURG — After he spent the night in jail one July night in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax as an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau gave a lecture which ...

Watching Donald Trump’s disjointed, narcissistic ramble at the United Nations, I kept thinking: “Why don’t the delegates walk out?” After all, he insulted many of their countries. “You’re destroying ...

Now, I’m all for a little civil disobedience from time to time. Think of Henry David Thoreau being thrown in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax — his way of speaking out against government complicity ...

Careful observers of actions by environmentalists such as splashing paintings or gluing themselves to pavement recognize that the activists come from a long tradition of civil disobedience. The ...

Protesters who challenge war policy by civil disobedience are resurrecting the powerful tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, but they will likely find it hard to sway most Americans for now, say ...

In his essay on Henry David Thoreau’s call for a “peaceable revolution” a half century after the fight at Concord’s North Bridge (“Revolutionary lessons from Thoreau,” Opinion, April 15), Richard ...