In 1951, Grant’s star was on the rise. But just as her career was taking off, it was derailed and she was blacklisted, barred ...

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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls the ...

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 that is steeped in rhetoric of that era. State education officials approved sweeping ...

It is hereby the official position of Florida’s State Board of Education that Joseph McCarthy was actually a pretty chill ...

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Which is more scrupulous, the #MeToo movement or McCarthyism? The original McCarthyism, I mean — that of the blacklist and the Hollywood Ten, of which the junior senator from Wisconsin was only ever a ...