Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America remains true to this principle. Providing a wealth of engaging detail that underscores how different the mid-20th ...

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Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn at a HUAC hearing.(Getty Images) “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So begins L.P. Hartley’s masterful novel of love and memory, The ...

As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent. The censorship of radical voices is an old story that’s become much more dire—and current—with the ...

“I was struck this summer when [now Vice President] JD Vance was talking about these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are supposedly eating pets,” says Nashville native Risen, a historian and editor at ...

An effort to push queer people out of public life during the Red Scare takes familiar shape under the Trump administration ...

Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of the ...

Dasha Nekrasova is an actress and political commentator who co-hosts the popular Red Scare podcast. She is also a victim of one of the more bizarre cancel culture stories in recent memory. Over time, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Florida’s new standards reframe the McCarthy era as a legitimate anti-communist effort, instructing teachers to ...