Joseph McCarthy

Seventy years after a disgraceful episode of anti-LGTBQ history, we are facing a new wave of McCarthyist fearmongering.

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.

From 1947 until the 1990s, an estimated 10,000 LGBTQ people were pushed out of government and military positions.

The conservative conspiracy lit that paved the way for Donald Trump.

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

The government saw Red when looking at William Gropper's painting of the United States.

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.

Trump’s “Rededicate 250” event reframes America as a Christian nation, despite the Constitution’s secular roots and “under God” being a 1950s addition.

After World War II ended, the fascist propagandist and poet Ezra Pound returned to the U.S., where he was met with accusations of treason — and literary prizes.

Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.

Most important is the path pursued by my mother. She sustained herself by engaging socially, rather than battling politically or withdrawing stoically.

A new biography of the journalist Walter Lippmann bashes conservatives but adds value.

More than 75 years ago, one veteran fought the U.S. government’s right-wing blacklists. Today, we should learn from his example.

Analyzing every mention of 'democracy' in the Congressional Record.

In broadcasting, the Red Scare turned into a stupid hall of mirrors.

A Republican administration that wages war against immigrants and colleges should be understood as the culmination of William F. Buckley conservative movement.

On Richard Hofstadter and the current assault on academia.