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

If someone legally in the U.S. can be grabbed for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a ...

“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 ...

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 ... how conspiracy stories touched educators and ...

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 ...

“This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian ...