Donald Trump is playing the role of Joseph McCarthy. The very institutions he is assaulting must challenge him.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

During the "Lavender Scare" incited by Senator Joseph McCarthy, many gay Americans were harassed, arrested, and put on trial ...

In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In ...

the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy. The trial, held from May to July 1946 in the former concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, charged German generals along with rank-and-file ...

Morbid Symptoms / As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent. Jeet Heer ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

George Clooney’s big Broadway debut in “Good Night and Good Luck,” which opened April 3, has broken the weekly record for the ...

Recently, a global alliance of civil society organizations called CIVICUS added the United States to a global watchlist, ...

Despite George Clooney's very best intentions, "Good Night, and Good Luck" stumbles in a Broadway production that is far too on the nose.