AP Photo/John Locher Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign rally, Wednesday, September 28, 2016, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. rules-logo-109.jpeg D onald Trump has ditched any semblance of self-restraint with his renewed attacks on his Democratic rival as “Crooked Hillary,” but it’s Trump’s own apparent legal violations that are increasingly making the news. After months of breathless reports about the conflicts posed by the Clinton Foundation when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, a string of disclosures involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation point to multiple clear-cut tax and campaign-finance violations. Watchdogs and congressional Democrats have asked the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to investigate, and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has already launched a probe. Trump has dismissed the New York inquiry as politically motivated, and his campaign aides say he has followed all applicable laws. But there are signs...

AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. rules-logo-109.jpeg O n August 24, Senator Bernie Sanders stood before a crowd of supporters gathered in a community arts space in Burlington, Vermont, to unveil the next phase of his progressive movement. “Tonight I want to introduce you to a new, independent nonprofit organization that is called Our Revolution, which is inspired by the historic Bernie 2016 presidential campaign,” said Sanders at the event, which was livestreamed to some 300,000 supporters. The group, Sanders declared, “will be fighting at the grassroots level for changes in their local school boards, in their city councils, in their state legislatures and in their representation in Washington.” But the enthusiastic applause that greeted Sanders in Burlington contrasted sharply with the messy controversies and bad press dogging Our Revolution even before its official launch. On the same...