Activism / Obituary / The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism. John Nichols The Rev.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, has ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Civil Rights Movement icon and two-time former presidential candidate, has died.

Frederick Wiseman, 96, the renowned documentarian who chronicled life at Northeast Philadelphia High School in a 1968 film that caused a yearslong controversy in the city, has died. Zipporah Films, a ...

Patrick Healy, an assistant managing editor who oversees The Times’s journalistic standards, talked with four of the journalists who are working on the Epstein files to kick around those questions.

Although Congress has boosted the amount of money for members' security, some Minnesota lawmakers are spending more for their ...

It seems genteel and quaint today, compared to what we’re living through now, but at the time, to a lot of people, the Reagan Revolution was shocking. He and his movement launched a massive assault on ...

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...