In the anxious years after World War II ended in 1945, nuclear power reshuffled the global order, and fear of communist ...

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ by Clay Risen “As a scholarly subject, the Red Scare has never quite experienced its moment of glory, ...

FADEL: The book is "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, And The Making Of Modern America," and it's based in part on newly declassified sources. Risen spoke with our cohost, Steve Inskeep. STEVE ...

RED SCARE: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen When the end came for Joe McCarthy, it was Edward R. Murrow who delivered the knockout blow. On his CBS program ...

Decades after Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, one man’s revenge campaign is muzzling the capital again. How Trump Silenced Washington A veil of fear shrouds Washington as a power-hungry ...

Murrow, who exposed McCarthy on television. We're talking about people like Chief Justice Earl Warren, who very systematically worked his way through the legal architecture of the Red Scare and ...