Recent actions by the Trump administration — including the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil — have drawn comparisons to the Red Scare of the early and mid-20th century.

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

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

The new era of Trump authoritarianism is being called by many a new McCarthyism, but that is not a good analogy. It’s looking ...

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked an obscure immigration provision enacted during the J. Edgar Hoover-era Red Scare ...

The act comes up so frequently because it is the legal foundation of modern immigration law, encompassing a vast range of ...

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.