The Red Scare used mass fear to put a long, deep freeze on freedom of thought and creativity in America; this may be the closest parallel to what we are seeing today.

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

More than seven decades later, the legacies of the Red Scare have resurfaced in the United States – this time targeting China.

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 ...

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

M.S.: Throughout the Red Scare, there’s this culture of fear that created self-censorship in workplaces, universities, and the media, which we’re also seeing today amid fears of funding cuts ...

Donald Trump is “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”—that’s what Princeton’s president Christopher Eisgruber said.

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.

It also documents the fear and suffering of those who bore the brunt of it. As a scholarly subject, the Red Scare has never quite experienced its moment of glory.

There was a brief period termed the Red Scare around 1920, but after World War II, alarmists, conspiracy theorists, and opportunists fanned fear of the Soviets.

At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.