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

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

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

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

Trump’s attacks on his political opponents, including law firms that have represented those opponents, as well as his attacks on those engaged in speech and political advocacy he disfavors, are the ...

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 ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America By Clay Risen Simon & Schuster, 480 pages, $31 On Feb. 8 ...

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

I’m one of those people who definitely believe that the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” is at its core anti-Semitic and eliminationist in its character.