At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its southern neighbour ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home ...

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.

For years, President Donald Trump blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump ...

But the Red Scare's roots extended deep into the preceding years, almost to the day America entered World War I. World War I began in Europe in 1914, and from the start, President Woodrow Wilson ...

At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

The New York Historical prepares to examine the campaign against Communism that once shook Hollywood and beyond.

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 ...

President Trump's second administration is employing the term "communist" to label opponents, a strategy he used successfully ...