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

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

Instead, Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity ...

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

A conservative columnist observed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about one another "like an old married couple." ...

What kind of president would give massive authority to an adviser not confirmed by the Senate? Only every Democratic president who’s ever lived.

Neither voters nor the Senate voted for Soviet spy Alger Hiss to be President Franklin Roosevelt’s top adviser. But he sat at the president’s side at Yalta, as FDR cheerfully condemned tens of ...