At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Risen, a historian and journalist, believes that the roots of today’s political hard right are to be found in the Red Scare that lasted from the mid-1940s to 1957.

“Red Channels” contained the names of 151 people working in media and related professions. The book accused them of advancing Communist objectives “by indoctrinating the masses of people ...

Red Scare host Dasha Nekrasova has apparently left ... “But for the record, I don’t see why people don’t like NIMBYs.” At a meeting last week of Community Board 6, Nekrasova spoke in ...

Welcome to the Red Scare 2.0. It wasn’t just Hollywood blacklists, the mass firings of LGBTQ people known as the Lavender Scare and McCarthyism, though that’s how popular culture represents ...

In his preface to Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, Clay Risen states an intention to ...