Seizing Their Passports Only Makes Activists More Determined

Though the provision was dropped after it faced backlash, the bill initially would have given the State Department the power ...

What is Antifa? The parallels between Trump targeting the “radical left” and McCarthyism in the 1950s

As Trump revives talk of a “domestic war” on Antifa, his rhetoric recalls America’s Cold War purges, when dissent was branded ...
Yahoo

McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

A Texas A&M free speech case raises questions about academic freedom that have featured before in American society and courts, including during the 1950s. Westend61 Texas A&M University announced the ...

Sylvie Laurent, historian: 'McCarthyism was a minor version of what is unfolding in the United States today'

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the American studies scholar voices concern over the climate of suspicion and repression ...

Olivier Burtin, historian: 'Trump presents himself as war leader of a domestic conflict'

OP-ED. In an op-ed, the US specialist revisits the long history of far-right rhetoric about the 'enemy within.' According to ...
Houston Chronicle

McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Laura Gail Miller, Seattle University (THE CONVERSATION) Texas A&M University ...
The Middletown Press

McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The student questioned whether it was “legal” to be teaching about gender identity, ...