As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

I grew up in a home where that trauma hung in the air like smoke from the cigarettes chain-smoked by my mother — a civil ...

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.

McCarthyism was bigger than Joseph McCarthy—and it continued even after his personal disgrace ... traced back to the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1938 ...

The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.

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After the war, Murrow returned to New ... t want to talk much about his role in the unraveling of the McCarthy challenge to American democracy, but he seemed eager to discuss his definition ...

Even after McCarthyism faded, Bernstein remained under ... Arthur Miller, one of America’s greatest playwrights, became a target of the HUAC during the height of McCarthyism.

After a week, her tone turned to rage. She was a loyal American, a devoted public servant ... When, as during the McCarthy era and now, government inflicts that pain on a mass scale, it magnifies ...