After World War II, the United States government felt threatened by its World War II ally, the U.S.S.R. From the end of World ...

The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it.” That was historian Ellen Schrecker’s devastating conclusion in ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

As Broadway prepares to reckon with the effect of McCarthyism on journalism in the new drama, Good Night and Good Luck, go ...

The North’s outrage is linked to a questionnaire sent by the Washington-based Office of Management and Budget looking into ...

I got an unexpected email last week from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It referenced the Prevention ...

The Trump administration's war of words with French officials over the Statue of Liberty and the rejection of a French ...

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.

Mahmoud Khalil — a 30-year-old Columbia University student — has been held in a federal detention center in Louisiana for, ...

McCarthyism of the early 1950s was the height of postwar anti-communism in America as Sen. Joseph McCarthy lambasted government agencies and the U.S. Army for being hot beds of communists.