On Saturday morning, President Trump tweeted, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump’s evocation ...

The John Batchelor Show, December 6. Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments are at ...

During the 1950s “Red Scare,” innocent Americans were smeared and sometimes blacklisted for being supposed Communists. Real subversives existed, including Alger Hiss, a traitor and Soviet spy whom ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016. (Reuters / Mark Kauzlarich) By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Back then it was fear of Communism; now it’s fear of an amorphous enemy that’s all the more potent to some for being unseen. Call ...

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A ...

In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” It was not too long ago that the second Red Scare and the ...

Hendrik Hertzberg, on his blog at The New Yorker, assails ABC for their McCarthyism towards Obama during last week's debate. This is in reference to ABC's efforts to establish "guilt by association" ...

On June 13, 2022, the Victims of Communism museum opened in Washington, D.C. The goal of this institution is to remember and commemorate the supposed 100 million victims that died under brutal ...