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

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

That period of history is the focus of the new book "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America." Author and reporter Clay Risen joins the show to discuss past political ...

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its ...

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I grew up in a home where that trauma hung in the air like smoke from the cigarettes chain-smoked by my mother — a civil ...

We really need more Republican members of Congress speaking up. I know they have nice jobs — little to do, decent ...

Editor: I'm just old enough to remember Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare of the 1950s. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) led a government-wide hunt for ...