I recently spoke with Risen about the conspiracy thinking behind the Red Scare—and the political conditions in which it reemerges—and what can be learned by looking back at a perilous time in ...

History can inform us, but we are always on future’s doorstep. Gene is a retired lawyer, former history professor, occasional journalist. Contact him at [email protected].

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 ...

Monday's political cartoons feature Donald Trump's red tie, Hunter Biden's crypto lament, and one meaning of Memorial Day ...

The Irish Rosary trial had its origins in the “Red Scare” general election of 1932 ... it as a great obstacle to the achievement of the political and economic freedom of this country and ...

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 ...

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid talks his explosive satire 'Yes' out of Cannes, a movie financiers, actors, and distributors ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

At a small university in the city of Grenoble, an accusation of Islamophobia set off a wild kerfuffle and a media frenzy.

The 20th century got on to a rocky start with a slew of wars and revolutions of varying scales. From the Russo-Japanese War ...

As the mayor works to address the systemic impacts of the Tulsa Race Massacre, 2 News’ Naomi Keitt listened to a Tulsa woman ...

Political cartoonists take on the USA's financial hole, rare bipartisan agreement, and Donald Trump and Mike Johnson ...