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

As Broadway prepares to reckon with the effect of McCarthyism on journalism in the new drama, Good Night and Good Luck, go ...

The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it.” That was historian Ellen Schrecker’s devastating conclusion in ...

The North’s outrage is linked to a questionnaire sent by the Washington-based Office of Management and Budget looking into ...

I got an unexpected email last week from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It referenced the Prevention ...

Robert Oppenheimer, Condon was held in nearly equal esteem by his scientific colleagues: A pioneering figure in nuclear ...

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 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S.