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 ...

McCarthy contends that Trump’s trials — like the one that began this week in New York — are manifestations of a weaponized justice system marshaled to serve the Democratic Party’s interests.

McCarthy would never have gone so far — apologies ... Whittaker Chambers, witness at the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, 1948. Photo by Getty Images Others include labor activist Harry Bridges ...

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 ...