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During the height of the McCarthy era of the late 1940s, the so called "Red Scare" ended careers and for some, led to jail ...
Andrew Chongseh Kim, a lawyer at the law firm Greenberg Traurig, and the Committee of 100 co-authored the report "Racial Disparities in Economic Espionage Act Prosecutions: A Window into the New Red ...
Buffalo's 2021 mayoral election featured democratic socialist India Walton beating establishment incumbent Byron Brown in the ...
Culture A new exhibit on Red Scare blacklists presents chilling parallels to our current era It’s hard not to see echoes between ‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ at the New York Historical ...
Andrew McCarthy had a full-circle moment when he posted a photo of his 18-year-old daughter all dressed up for prom, with a nod to his “Pretty in Pink” past.
Many in the background during the Red Scare were against the New Deal, using McCarthy and his ilk to discredit it. Looking under the bed for communists signals desperation.
The Red Scare Still Haunts America The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.
On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era, and Jeff Kisseloff argues that Whittaker Chambers lied ...
This week on The Treatment, Elvis has an extended conversation with writer and director Ryan Coogler about his newest film Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld. And on The Treat, ...
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 ...
Red Scare has a massive cast of characters. How did you choose whom to follow? I could have made this a McCarthy story. But I didn’t think McCarthy was the whole story.
Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of ...