Atlantic staff writer Nick Miroff, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Allen Orr, and New York ...

At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy. In truth, both Red Scares were ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In ...

the Red Scare has never quite experienced its moment of glory,” said Beverly Gage in The New Yorker. Though many stories have been told about the Hollywood blacklist and Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ...

The judge in Vermont ordered the government to release Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University detained ...

The New York Historical prepares to examine the campaign against Communism that once shook Hollywood and beyond.

On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era ... universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s ...

In Red Scare, Risen... Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism back to life Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The ability to closely examine dramatic events and then let them pass emerges as “a huge ...