Morbid Symptoms / As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent. Jeet Heer The censorship of radical voices is an old story that’s become much more ...

Less than an hour after he set a fire in Governor Josh Shapiro’s home last week, the alleged arsonist called police ...

Recently, a global alliance of civil society organizations called CIVICUS added the United States to a global watchlist, ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In ...

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. Even before the Trump/Musk ...

McCarthyism was bigger than Joseph McCarthy—and it continued even after his personal disgrace. McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War ...

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey claimed Tuesday President Donald Trump channeled “McCarthyism” by threatening to pull over $200 million in ...

Anyone who has been fired, or knows someone who has, must be shocked at the callousness of Elon Musk talking about taking a “chain saw” to agencies and Russell Vought, head of the Office of ...

Hegseth has earned for himself perhaps the best-known rebuke from the McCarthy era: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” ...

It finally has happened. Under the red-hot glare of the Eye of MAGA, Marco Rubio has shrunk to invisibility. Under his ...

In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and ...