Titled “Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television,” the introduction was written by a former military intelligence officer turned aspiring radio writer turned FBI ...

Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." 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 ...

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 ...

Another is the postwar Red Scare, when the federal government was weaponized against the American left. Trump has long vowed to root out “radical left lunatics” and “Marxist equity” from ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.