Georgetown graduate Clay Risen is a noted historian and veteran New York Times reporter. His current book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America explores Congress's ...

For decades, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s name has been used as shorthand for the opposite of the aspirational ideal of civilized American politics. In the way that Kleenex has become interchangeable ...

Back in the 1950s, in the United States, even a whisper of sympathy for Russia or the Soviet Union was unthinkable and seen as almost traitorous. The eventual rise of McCarthyism was all about rooting ...