Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

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

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 ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

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 ...

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 ...

SWEETWATER COUNTY -- “The Cold War at Home” was the subject ... an outspoken adversary of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his notorious “Red Scare” campaign and tactics that grew increasingly ...

Brenes: Another flawed reading of history is the idea that the Cold War united Americans, regardless of political party, in an existential contest against communism. That ignores the rise of ...