In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his ...

With its indifference to truth, the ruthless pursuit of opponents, the linking of sexuality to subversion and the capitulation of institutions, Donald Trump's America is resembling the anti-Communist ...

The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the American studies scholar voices concern over the climate of suspicion and repression ...

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, author Clay Risen explores Congress's investigation of Communism ...

Relaunching free-speech groups that fought the Red Scare is helpful. But last time, they had the White House as an ally, not ...

Abraham Lincoln’s quote, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” reverberates even more loudly today. In Sen. Margaret ...

As Trump revives talk of a “domestic war” on Antifa, his rhetoric recalls America’s Cold War purges, when dissent was branded ...

Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin testifying against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts Communist ...

Texas A&M University announced the resignation of its president, Mark A. Welsh III, on Sept. 18, 2025, following a controversial decision earlier in the month to fire a professor over a classroom ...

A Texas A&M free speech case raises questions about academic freedom that have featured before in American society and courts, including during the 1950s. Westend61 Texas A&M University announced the ...