The new era of Trump authoritarianism is being called by many a new McCarthyism, but that is not a good analogy. It’s looking ...
RED SCARE: Blacklists, McCarthyism ... often secretive and sometimes opaque office that for more than 50 years has helped the Pentagon’s most senior leaders think about the future of war.
Again and again the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt cited the Immigration and ...
Risen, a historian and journalist, believes that the roots of today’s political hard right are to be found in the Red Scare that lasted from the mid-1940s to 1957, when lawmakers tried to root out ...
Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t.