The book “Policing Show Business” shows how Trump’s attacks on “radical leftists” are like a sequel to the Red Scare.

The detention and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil stands in a long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to First and Second Red ...

McCarthyism wasn’t the first “Red Scare” in U.S. history. Technically, the second Red Scare can be traced back to the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?

Guest: Michelle Chen is a postdoctoral fellow in history at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She teaches labor and working-class history, studies the intersection of work, ...

and even murdering or stirring up internal internal feuds during the second Red Scare era in the ‘50s-60s among hippies, yippies, student anti-war groups and the Black Panthers Party.

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

In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, academic freedom across the country came increasingly under threat as McCarthyism and anticommunism took hold during what would be known as the second Red Scare.

A new book by journalist Clay Risen brings back to life a period of American history after World War II known as the Red Scare. According to Risen, what should've been a counterintelligence effort ...