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

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

During the "Lavender Scare" incited by Senator Joseph McCarthy, many gay Americans were harassed, arrested, and put on trial ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

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

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine on June 1, 1950, in her challenge of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Her fellow Republican proclaimed with certainty that there were communists in the government, a claim that ...

This is an opinion column. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way a single reasonable or courageous or simply ...