Boston Red Sox fans watching Saturday's win over the New York Yankees experienced a wild swing of emotion in the bottom of ...

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The Boston Red Sox are in fourth place in the American League East. They could make a trade that changes the outlook of the ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t.

Since Donald Trump retook office on January 20, he’s weaponized the federal government to execute his war on “woke,” targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, LGBTQ+ rights, and ...

It is apt that Rodney Jewett begins his letter extolling Trump’s “America First” policy by praising William F. Buckley, Jr., ...

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

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently pledged to “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese international students, just days after Donald Trump attempted to strongarm Harvard into banning all ...

Why defend academic freedom even when the ideas in question are wrongheaded or harmful? “It is precisely because any kind of ...

Two Ohio State professors say the university's new legislatively mandated civics center is needed to stave off self-censorship on campus.

They’re also part of the story told in Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, which argues that the Cold War–era campaigns to purge the United ...