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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s. By Kevin Peraino Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently ...

Another is the postwar Red Scare, when the federal government was weaponized against the American left. Trump has long vowed to root out “radical left lunatics” and “Marxist equity” from ...

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

The new era of Trump authoritarianism is being called by many a new McCarthyism, but that is not a good analogy. It’s looking ...

It was a risk that few other firms were willing to take at the height of the Red Scare. “Paul, I understand your firm is engaged in defending communists and homosexuals,” the man sneered.

A new book by journalist Clay Risen brings back to life a period of American history after World War II known as the Red Scare. According to Risen, what should've been a counterintelligence effort ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...