Experts say the campaign is part of a broader, well-organized, deep-pocketed assault on church-state separation.

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance.

Tucked away on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, where palm trees sway and the downtown skyline looms in the distance, sits a treasure hunter’s paradise that has savvy shoppers making special trips from ...