Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation's ...

The synthesis these liberal anti-communists arrived at was to oppose McCarthyism and communism simultaneously. They would ...

The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

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 the new book "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Others used the same Cold War comparison, pointing to the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his quest to root out those he called subversive. “They’re just bringing back old tactics here.

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did ... But news reports and McCarthy’s prepared text suggest that he painted a dark picture of the Cold War.

Still, as difficult as their position might have seemed, liberals managed to beat back McCarthyism and retain public confidence in their ability to handle the Cold War.