Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

If someone legally in the U.S. can be grabbed for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a ...

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread ...