LEWISBURG — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees will be housed at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, the ...

The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, ...

The aphorism, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," is attributed to Mark Twain. Although there is no ...

The synthesis these liberal anti-communists arrived at was to oppose McCarthyism and communism simultaneously. They would ...

For almost a century a small cohort of private “alternative” schools have offered progressive (and occasionally kooky) curricula to families who want their kids to learn how to think for themselves.

As Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a ...

Return with us now to 1948 to the Alger Hiss case, one of the most sensational and politically significant spy stories of the 20th century. Now there’s a new book out that blows that case wide open.

Beverly Gage reviews “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America,” by Clay Risen.

Albert Camus, author of ‘The Stranger’ and ‘Caligula.’ Photo by Getty Images Of course, Risen does not ignore the cases of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Alger Hiss also denied the accusations, and added once more that as far as he could recall he had never in his life seen Chambers, said that he did not recognize his photograph, and declared that ...

Nixon would later say that he knew Hiss was bluffing during his testimony. The truth was that John Cronin, an anti-communist priest, had tipped Nixon off in early 1947 about Hiss’ Communist past.

NEW YORK — Scholars probing anew into the Cold War's most famous espionage case suggested Thursday that another U.S. diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent code-named Ales.