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

In writing the new book, Clayton also got to know her new hometown better, strolling its tree-dotted and canopied streets, ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31. Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now History Is Repeating Itself. 9 minute read. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, in February 1954.

In truth, both Red Scares were ignited by liberal Democrats—Woodrow Wilson during World War I and Harry Truman during the Cold War—although the rise of McCarthyism in the 1940s and ’50s ...

Then and now, McCarthyism thrives where fellow travelers proliferate — not because they defy the status quo, but because they remain silent about it. So speak up. More to Read .

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31. Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

Even though today’s assault on the university is immeasurably worse than McCarthyism, similarities do exist. Both repressive movements emerged from the efforts of powerful right-wing forces to ...

Right-wing attacks on Planned Parenthood hark back to the days of McCarthy, says Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile.

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.

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order.

McCarthyism – the epitome of the “paranoid style in American politics,” which historian Richard Hofstadter famously described as a combination of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and ...