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In the anxious years after World War II ended in 1945, nuclear power reshuffled the global order, and fear of communist intrigue in the United States ignited a Red Scare that targeted government ...

Jul. 23—The question comes up every year after the Red Scare exits The Basketball Tournament: Will they run it back next year? Jeremiah Bonsu, who helped form the first Dayton Flyers alumni team in ...

Drawing parallels to McCarthyism, this opinion argues President Donald Trump is reviving Red Scare-style political tactics by ...

Fascism wasn’t always a bad word in the U.S. In the 1940s and 1950s, one of the charges levied by the House Un-American Activities Committee was “premature antifascism.” Largely directed at people who ...

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn at a HUAC hearing.(Getty Images) “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So begins L.P. Hartley’s masterful novel of love and memory, The ...

Award-winning author Con Lehane melds a solid private detective novel with a satisfying historical look at the communist witch hunt during the McCarthy era of the early 1950s in “The Red Scare Murders ...

A graphic episode from Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me. With the midterm elections now firmly upon us, the question is whether Democratic candidates will do more than merely occupy ballot lines ...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has been threatening to retaliate against the “radical left.” This response has echoes in American history — in the Red Scare. In the hours ...