Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

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 ...

The local production tells the story of Margaret Chase Smith standing up to Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. There will be preview performances ahead of the Cleveland run on Sunday and Monday.

Award-winning author Con Lehane melds a solid private detective novel with a satisfying historical look at the communist witch hunt during the McCarthy era of the early 1950s in “The Red Scare Murders ...

The Red Scare is a period in U.S. history during which the fear of communism was the most pervasive influence on politics, culture, and everyday life. While there were two major Red Scares, the first ...