At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

Atlantic staff writer Nick Miroff, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Allen Orr, and New York ...

Judge Geoffrey Crawford compared Mohsen Mahdawi’s detention to crackdowns during Palmer Raids and the McCarthy era.

Legal Newsletter reviews judges’ historical parallels to the present moment. Some of them are bleak, but apt. Welcome back, ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era ... universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s ...

In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against all kinds of people, not just potential communist spies. And he argues that the Red Scare was part of a broader cultural ...

In Red Scare, Risen... Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism back to life Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on ...

The New York Historical prepares to examine the campaign against Communism that once shook Hollywood and beyond.