‘Red Scare’ author lets past political hysteria teach us about the present
Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...
Making America Red-Scared Again
In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
The New Yorker5d
How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics
At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...
Why the Trump administration keeps talking about an immigration law passed during 1950s Red Scare
The act comes up so frequently because it is the legal foundation of modern immigration law, encompassing a vast range of ...
Truthout3d
Rubio Is Using Red Scare-Era Immigration Provision to Go After Protesters
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked an obscure immigration provision enacted during the J. Edgar Hoover-era Red Scare ...
Seattle Times4d
This is the greatest threat to free speech since the Red Scare
The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread fear of communist infiltration to purge leftists from government and ...
HeraldNet2d
Goldberg: Student’s arrest for protest mirrors Red Scare days
The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread fear of communist infiltration to purge leftists from government and ...
Oregonian2d
Why the Trump administration keeps talking about an immigration law passed during 1950s Red Scare
Again and again the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt cited the Immigration and ...