Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

WilmerHale, which sued the Trump administration over an executive order constraining its ability to do business, has a ...

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its ...

The Trump administration has been criticized for withholding funding from federal universities, revoking student visas based ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding graduate student at Columbia University, was arrested in his university-owned apartment in association with pro-Palestinian protests last year. He was later taken ...

I grew up in a home where that trauma hung in the air like smoke from the cigarettes chain-smoked by my mother — a civil ...

During the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in their hunt to weed out communist sympathizers, set their sights ...

The long-run melodrama When Did You Stop Beating Anti-Communists? (Senator Joseph McCarthy, producer, director and star) introduced a new performer last week. He was Reed Harris, 43, deputy ...

Joseph McCarthy. The Great Depression had shocked ... has copied the autocratic tactics of fascism, Hitlerism and communism at their worst.” This conflict between New Deal progressives and ...