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The New Red Scare: When Fear Becomes a Political Weapon
More than seven decades later, the legacies of the Red Scare have resurfaced in the United States – this time targeting China ...
What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...
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The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now It's Happening Again
Read More: You've Probably Heard of the Red Scare, but the Lesser-Known, Anti-Gay 'Lavender Scare' Is Rarely Taught in ...
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The Red Scare
In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter ...
Federal workers were targeted for loyalty during the Red Scare
President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...
Another book about my grandfather Whittaker Chambers puts politics before historical accuracy
Out of 28 chapters, three concern the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Case. The literature on this historical episode is sadly ...