The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.

This mattered because it was his article that ignited McCarthyism. In the eighth paragraph, the reporter repeated the claim from the speech text that McCarthy had “a list of 205” spies. McCarthy, ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and the MAGA movement.

Trump’s attacks on his political opponents, including law firms that have represented those opponents, as well as his attacks ...

In a CNN interview Monday, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union likened the arrest of a ...

Democratic leaders have been questioning the loyalty of those who support or work with the Trump Administration, echoing ...

The clearest indication of the political disorientation of the SWP was its reaction to the growth of McCarthyism in 1953–54. It concluded that the witch-hunting Republican senator from Wisconsin ...

No good citizen’s reputation is safe with bullies who are willing to spread gossip and falsehoods like a virus throughout our community. These people have forsaken the fundamental shared precepts and ...

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Here’s an administration that roared into the White House in part on a promise to sweep away a heavy-handed bureaucracy that ...

The Queensland University of Technology’s Chelsea Watego, who runs the Carumba Institute that ran a controversial anti-racism symposium, has condemned a new definition of anti-Semitism agreed to by ...