Nearly two dozen professors investigated by their universities are now sounding the alarm on what they say were essentially ...

The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

While the Heritage Foundation document focuses on the Palestine solidarity movement, its ultimate target is far broader.

Sound familiar? Trump’s rhetoric against pro-Palestinian students — and universities in general — draws dangerous parallels to the McCarthy era of United States history, where political persecution ...

I know, because 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 servant fired without cause in the McCarthy era.

and few have likely imagined that a McCarthy-era statute would not only survive but be revived and aggressively expanded in the 21st century. Those applauding the recent crackdowns should remember ...

A new Criterion series of McCarthy-era noir films is a timely collection for an era of rising government repression — though ...

It’s an obscure McCarthy-era statute passed at the height of Cold War paranoia — meant to help root out “subversives” from every area of public life. The Trump administration is going ...

And his defiance—whether in the face of government censorship or McCarthy-era intimidation—remains a testament to the power of art as resistance. During the height of McCarthyism, one of ...

and witch hunts that defined the era, most famously under Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The Great Depression had shocked millions of Americans into action. Between 1929 and 1933, nearly 9,000 ...