When financial gain supersedes all journalistic principle, our moral life and our democracy are in deep trouble.

I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer ...

The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

The synthesis these liberal anti-communists arrived at was to oppose McCarthyism and communism simultaneously. They would ...

During the height of McCarthyism, the CP quite rightly denounced the McCarthyite show trials and U.S. imperial actions in Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Still, as difficult as their position might have seemed, liberals managed to beat back McCarthyism and retain public confidence in their ability to handle the Cold War.

The dynamic is identical to that of the 1950s, when the right tried to paint all opponents of McCarthyism as communists (just as the left wished to paint all anti-communists as McCarthyists). Trump’s ...

We’ll link to your piece in The Nation headlined “Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump,” as well as Jelani Cobb’s piece in The New Yorker that extensively quotes you ...

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks as U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) listens at a media conference on the release of McCarthy-era records on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 5, 2003. Alex ...

McCarthyism has been roundly criticized in the decades since, and few have likely imagined that a McCarthy-era statute would not only survive but be revived and aggressively expanded in the 21st ...