President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...

The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

America's first Red Scare, an era of hostility toward perceived "disloyalty" — and relentless government repression of radicals and others — began in April 1919. Organized labor, freed from ...