In the anxious years after World War II ended in 1945, nuclear power reshuffled the global order, and fear of communist intrigue in the United States ignited a Red Scare that targeted government ...

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A new book by journalist Clay Risen brings back to life a period of American history after World War II known as the Red Scare. According to Risen, what should've been a counterintelligence effort ...

The Red Scare is a period in U.S. history during which the fear of communism was the most pervasive influence on politics, culture, and everyday life. While there were two major Red Scares, the first ...

“I was struck this summer when [now Vice President] JD Vance was talking about these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are supposedly eating pets,” says Nashville native Risen, a historian and editor at ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against all ...

The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida's new social studies teaching standards that other critics have ...

Dasha Nekrasova is an actress and political commentator who co-hosts the popular Red Scare podcast. She is also a victim of one of the more bizarre cancel culture stories in recent memory. Over time, ...

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