In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

I’m a reporter covering the technology industry. When the news cycle fills me with dread, I often find myself escaping into ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

In 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S.

Denny McCarthy, who took 18th in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & ...

Regarded as one of the best long-distance swimmers in New Jersey, McCarthy placed second in the 500 freestyle by ...

In 'Red Scare,' Risen analyzes the rise and fall of McCarthyism a plague that our country has never fully conquered.

Then came an audiobook to shiver my timbers. Suddenly, I heard of “clabberd” houses, stopping mid-walk to adjust my ear-buds.

As more people build fires in the dark and the cold, the less dark and cold it will be. But even a single fire will always be ...

There’s a record number of ex-SEALs on Capitol Hill. Is politics at odds with the special forces’ ethos of working in the ...

though final for McCarthy, was anything but final for the politics of paranoia and resentment that he embodied. Risen begins and ends his book with the story of Helen Reid Bryan, the executive ...