Ad Policy Alger Hiss, accused of spying, talks with reporters. (Bob Costello / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Donald Trump is “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red ...

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Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of ...

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

They’re also part of the story told in Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, which argues that the Cold War–era campaigns to purge the United ...

Bettmann via Getty Images In the anxious years after World War II ended in 1945, nuclear power reshuffled the global order, and fear of communist intrigue in the United States ignited a Red Scare ...

Since Donald Trump retook office on January 20, he’s weaponized the federal government to execute his war on “woke,” targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, LGBTQ+ rights, and ...

In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against all kinds of people, not just potential communist spies. Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism ...