In his book, Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Donald Trump and Elon ...

For several years before Joseph McCarthy first waved around his ever-changing list of supposed Communists in the State Department at a Republican dinner in Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950, ...

McCarthyism of the early 1950s was the height of postwar anti-communism in America as Sen. Joseph McCarthy lambasted government agencies and the U.S. Army for being hot beds of communists. Those of us ...

In 1950 Republican United States Sen. Joseph McCarthy was beginning a reign of terror as he held fiery Senate hearings based on claims Communists and Soviet spies had ...

McCarthyism never really ended in America; it metastasized. The ideological purges that once targeted “communists” now target Muslims/Arab-Americans, and ...

Recently, a global alliance of civil society organizations called CIVICUS added the United States to a global watchlist, citing a narrowing state of civil rights. Although most people can still ...

Conservatives have long been at war with the university as an institution; it resides in the conservative pundit’s imagination as harbingers of moral decay and loss of values. But most importantly, ...

Historian Nancy Baker Jones was a child when her father, who was serving in the U.S. Army in Europe, was called home in 1953 to testify at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hearings on an alleged ...

As heard from the floor of the U.S. Senate: “… I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in ...

Alger Hiss, accused of Communist espionage, takes an oath during hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He denied Whittaker Chambers' accusation that he was a Communist, Getty ...