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 ...

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 ...

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.

Trump’s attacks on his political opponents, including law firms that have represented those opponents, as well as his attacks ...

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

Here’s an administration that roared into the White House in part on a promise to sweep away a heavy-handed bureaucracy that ...

In 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S.

“I was struck this summer when [now Vice President] JD Vance was talking about these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are supposedly eating pets,” says Nashville native Risen, a historian and ...