I’m enjoying a documentary about the Cold War, which, not surprisingly, includes a segment regarding the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is infamously known as the primary prosecutor of the […] ...

It’s worth noting that while Senator Joseph McCarthy is often associated with the Red Scare, this particular exhibit doesn’t focus on him.

Murrow was one of the most respected broadcasters of his time, known for his live World War II reporting and later for confronting Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare.

The Red Scare Still Haunts America The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

IDEAS The Republican senator who dared to call out a dangerous colleague At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Murrow dared to opine that it was McCarthy and his hyped-up “Red scare” that was proving a way worse threat to democracy than the left-wingers he was so rabidly targeting.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America "Red Scare" takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists to a fuller understanding of what the ...