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

JW: Beverly Gage – she wrote about the Red Scare of the ’50s and its similarities and differences from Trump’s attacks for The New Yorker. Bev, thanks for talking with us today. BG: Thanks, Jon.

America's first Red Scare, an era of hostility toward perceived "disloyalty" — and relentless government repression of radicals and others — began in April 1919. Organized labor, freed from ...

At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy. Clay Risen, a reporter at The New York Times, is the author of “Red Scare ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. In 1919, US President Woodrow Wilson appointed Alexander Mitchell Palmer as his Attorney General. Palmer claimed ...

“Blacklisted,” which runs from June 13 to Oct. 19, focuses on what became known as the Red Scare. For decades, starting after World War I and returning with greater fury in the 1940s and ...