On Saturday morning, President Trump tweeted, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump’s evocation ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls the ...

The John Batchelor Show, December 6. Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments are at ...

In an earlier far more innocent era, my mother told me you will be judged by the friends you keep. For many Americans, this was axiomatic. However, in this cynical era, you are often judged by who you ...

In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” It was not too long ago that the second Red Scare and the ...

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A ...

Hendrik Hertzberg, on his blog at The New Yorker, assails ABC for their McCarthyism towards Obama during last week's debate. This is in reference to ABC's efforts to establish "guilt by association" ...