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.

Today’s legislative efforts against the Palestine solidarity movement bear a striking resemblance to McCarthyism in both ...

It did not originate then, nor is Trumpism and the MAGA movement the same as McCarthyism and the John Birch Society. But there is a line linking them.” For 480 detailed, tension-packed pages ...

FADEL: The book is "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, And The Making Of Modern America," and it's based in part on newly declassified sources. Risen spoke with our cohost, Steve Inskeep. STEVE ...

Who would believe Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency would be quoting a senior North Korean official accusing “the U.S. administration” of “McCarthyism”? That favorite word of American academics ...