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

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.

Another is the postwar Red Scare, when the federal government was weaponized against the American left. Trump has long vowed to root out “radical left lunatics” and “Marxist equity” from ...

Risen, a historian and journalist, argues that roots of today’s U.S. political hard right are to be found in the Red Scare that lasted from the mid-1940s to 1957, when lawmakers tried to root out ...

The Boston Red Sox had a little scare on Tuesday but it sounds like everything is going to be okay. Boston scratched star shortstop Trevor Story shortly before the team took on the Philadelphia ...

The Boston Red Sox took on the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday and did so with a key piece of their offense. When the lineup was initially shared, shortstop Trevor Story was included in it.

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. “There is a ...

On Saturday, immigration agents showed up at the apartment building of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and told him his student visa had ...

Again and again the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt cited the Immigration and ...

Alex G. Harper for Seventeen While her parents are okay with her dating and even want to meet the people she's into, Zaya shares that her dad does try to scare away any potential suitors.