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 ...
At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its southern neighbour ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.
After World War II, a network of conservative ... turned FBI confidential informant. “Red Channels” contained the names of 151 people working in media and related professions.
Instead he portrays the Red Scare as a cultural battle fueled by the tensions of the deepening midcentury Cold War. It is a conflict, he makes clear, that never truly abated. Risen compares the ...
This was right after World War II, when tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union grew, and there were suspicions that the Cold War would ... Welcome to the Red Scare 2.0. It wasn ...
Just last week, Axios reported on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to use A.I. to comb the social media accounts of ... to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s ...