Titled “Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television,” the introduction was written by a former military intelligence officer turned aspiring radio writer turned FBI ...

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

America's first Red Scare, an era of hostility toward perceived "disloyalty" — and relentless government repression of radicals and others — began in April 1919. Organized labor, freed from ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.

Danielle Dionne was a Communist. She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home, I experienced an instinctive moment of fear ...

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

The Red Scare was under way ... strategized in advance to prepare a great made-for-TV zinger. When McCarthy began to attack a young lawyer in Welch’s firm as a would-be Communist, Welch shot ...