This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “Damn You All to Hell!” When you buy a book using a ...

Nancy Shute discusses which should scare you more: sharks or ticks and fungus — and why sharks might actually be the least of your worries.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31 Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

Culture A new exhibit on Red Scare blacklists presents chilling parallels to our current era It’s hard not to see echoes between ‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ at the New York Historical ...

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.

When the Boston Red Sox's lineup was shared on Monday, there was a big omission. Kristian Campbell -- who has been getting repetitions at first base with Triston Casas done for the year -- wasn't ...

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 ...

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

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy.