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

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

Khalil was detained in the lobby of his Columbia University-owned New York City apartment building on Saturday, with ICE ...

The trouble with McCarthyism is that once it gets going, it has a habit of ensnaring figures who were not meant to be its ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

If today the government feels free to target pro-Palestinian protesters, tomorrow it could go after other outspoken critics ...

The students liken the Trump administration’s use of false accusations of antisemitism in efforts to stifle free speech to the threat that McCarthyism and the broad overreach of the role of the House ...

Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian student activist at Columbia University. Federal agents arrived at Khalil’s building lobby claiming the U.S. Department of State ...

Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, ...

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

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