The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

The synthesis these liberal anti-communists arrived at was to oppose McCarthyism and communism simultaneously. They would ...

Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation's ...

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe ...

Why McCarthyism was familiar to Hannah Arendt. Clip: 6/27/2025 | 2m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Hannah Arendt was teaching at Berkeley when McCarthyism took hold of the United States.

For decades, Dayton locals tried to forget about the town’s connection to the controversial 1925 trial. Now, they embrace it ...

Pete Mitchell’s “In America” column appears every other Tuesday. He lives in Geneva. Contact him at [email protected].

At the heart of this crisis is a fundamental misunderstanding — or deliberate misrepresentation — of what it means to express ...