Kash Patel, the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, went to Capitol Hill to attend to the formality of his ...

You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on ... And up north of the city here in Marin, I saw a large sign on a store window that said, "Tesla is MAGA." ...

Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking ...

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 ...

Kennedy Sr., had roles in the Red Scare. What did their actions reveal about them? Truman was a very capable leader, but he was dropped in midstream to a lot of issues that even a year before he ...

Risen, a historian and journalist, believes that the roots of today’s political hard right are to be found in the Red Scare that lasted from the mid-1940s to 1957, when lawmakers tried to root out ...

The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread fear of communist infiltration to purge leftists from government and ...

The enigmatic artists took on “modern internet capitalism” and made millions. Now, a new book provides a behind-the-scenes ...

In his meticulous and mesmerizing history Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, Clay Risen traces the cultural, political, and social forces that gave rise to ...