Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In ...

The book “Policing Show Business” shows how Trump’s attacks on “radical leftists” are like a sequel to the Red Scare.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and ...

It is our fate — largely our own doing — to live at a time when the arc is going backward. Backward, perhaps, to the Gilded ...

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 ...

EVERY TIME I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa.” That is how Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, last month ...

A scrappy law firm decided to represent federal workers accused of disloyalty and survived to become a legal behemoth.

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. Larry Tye, a former Globe reporter, is the author of “Demagogue ...

In the book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America,” Clay Risen details how the conspiracy-mongering and cultural backlash of that post-World War II period speak ...