Children of people who were targeted during the 1950s McCarthy-era Red Scare say they remember the constant sense of surveillance they felt.

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

This hungry search for names in the Epstein files is beginning to have a definite McCarthy stink to it. Perhaps no names should be made public until the Justice Department — or whoever — actually ...

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.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Actress Lee Grant arrives with her husband Joe Feury to a screening of "The Company" at the Paris Theater in New York, Dec.

Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin testifying against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts Communist ...

In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” It was not too long ago that the second Red Scare and the ...

Penn is motioning to dismiss the lawsuit alleging “McCarthyism” filed by a group of faculty members last month. On April 3, Seth Waxman – the lawyer representing the University — requested a ...

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism. Even before the Trump/Musk ...

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet. One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the ...