The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.

Trump’s attacks on his political opponents, including law firms that have represented those opponents, as well as his attacks on those engaged in speech and political advocacy he disfavors, are the ...

In a CNN interview Monday, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union likened the arrest of a ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America By Clay Risen Simon & Schuster, 480 pages, $31 On Feb. 8 ...

No good citizen’s reputation is safe with bullies who are willing to spread gossip and falsehoods like a virus throughout our community. These people have forsaken the fundamental shared precepts and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. While in college in the early 1950s, students were mesmerized by the ...

The media needs to expose the reality of this attack on the civil service: it’s a costly new form of McCarthyism, one that is full of falsehoods and is of dubious legality. That’s especially true ...

The term "McCarthyism" refers to the campaign led by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, which sought to expose ...

Democratic leaders have been questioning the loyalty of those who support or work with the Trump Administration, echoing ...

Here’s an administration that roared into the White House in part on a promise to sweep away a heavy-handed bureaucracy that ...

Few lines better capture the phenomenon of McCarthyism, born 75 years ago. It was a birth that was far from immaculate. McCarthy would never have gone so far — apologies to Isaac Newton — had ...