In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political ...

In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, academic freedom across the country came increasingly under threat as McCarthyism and anticommunism took hold during what would be known as the second Red Scare.

NH high schools could be required under law to provide one hour of instruction on communism under a bill passed by the state House Thursday.

And he really believed that communism was this threat. But he also was, no doubt, an opportunist. And he saw this as an opportunity to elevate his position in the Senate, in American politics. And, of ...