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James Campbell worked in the civil rights movement with Jack O’Dell, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X and Bob Moses; in the theater and contributed to the influential Freedomways journal co-founded by W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois. Now at 95, a tribute.

The work of organizing a politically legible coalition of nonvoters is functionally the same as what’s needed for the left to win elections.

No one’s paying much attention to one chunk of the electorate that could prove decisive in 2020. To recognize the other swing voter is to decenter the white moderate in the body politic—where she and especially he has been positioned.

Trump’s election theme is that Americans won’t be safe in a Biden presidency. The opposite is true. Americans won’t be safe as long as a white supremacist president is leading a movement of bigots to incite a civil war

What Russian Left Parties Say About Belarus, and reports from Brazil, Sudan, London, Kenya, India, France and Morocco

The agency’s new guidelines are wrong, so states have to step up on their own to suppress the coronavirus.

Faced with the prospect of losing power, the President has gone beyond mere scaremongering and resorted to fomenting unrest from the White House.

The scholar and activist has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up.

The violent right’s influence in intelligence, police, conservatism - and how to fight it