Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Still, it’s another of the poem’s stanzas, unspoken here, that points most forcefully to “Fellow Travelers’” project. The American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin testifying against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C.

In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” It was not too long ago that the second Red Scare and the ...

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A ...

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism. Even before the Trump/Musk ...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin, was censured by the U.S. Senate after he spent four years holding hearings that accused hundreds of Americans of being communists, often without facts. Proposed ...

The Intercept columnist Natasha Lennard details how the combination of anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic repression and very few worker protections across the U.S. has created a “very dangerous ...

In theory, it should be possible to oppose the Israeli military actions in Gaza, and defend the rights of campus protesters, without descending into anti-Jewish tropes. In reality, not so much. Even ...

Students in Florida's public schools will soon be learning an interpretation of McCarthyism and the Cold War fight against communism that is steeped in the rhetoric of that era, after state education ...

Actress Lee Grant, far right, a presenter at the third annual Women in Film 1996 Lucy Awards, and actress Marlo Thomas, a recipient, pose with Thomas? award on Saturday, Sept. 7, 1996 at the Beverly ...

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Douglas Bell discusses Chandler Davis and the contest over free speech. Jeet Heer Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet. One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the ...