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McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful toolsThere are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, rou...

Christians for McCarthyism?

Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Some Christian influencers are now trumpeting Joe McCarthy, the 1950s U.S. Senator and red hunter, as a model for today. One prominent influencer rece...

The GOP’s New Red Scare

Chris Lehmann McCarthyism, the second time as farce. The post The GOP’s New Red Scare appeared first on The Nation.

A New Wave of “Communist” Hysteria is Threatening to Spread Across US Politics

UNITED NATIONS, July 29 (IPS) - Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican of Kansas) rose to public attention in the 1950s with his allegations that hundreds of “Communists” had infi...

DOJ’s Lawsuit Against D.C. Bar Counsel Sparks ‘McCarthyism’ Accusation

Phil Fox argues that the administration is substituting political accusations for legal analysis. The post DOJ’s Lawsuit Against D.C. Bar Counsel Sparks ‘McCarthyism’ Accusation ap...

American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left

A retrospective at the Locarno film festival looks back at the era of Huac’s domination of US culture, uncovering some sobering lessons for nowIn September 2025, Disney and ABC ann...

America’s Third Red Scare

Pietro A. Shakarian Trump and the revival of “red-hunting” demagoguery. The post America’s Third Red Scare appeared first on The Nation.

A New McCarthyism? House GOP Subpoenas BreakThrough News in Escalating War on Progressive Groups

The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News last week, demanding the independent online news outlet hand over internal communications and financi...

America's Third Red Scare

Gen Z is reopening America’s cold cases

Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, and Andrew Jackson have little in common beyond one striking fact: Young Americans are revisiting reputations that schools, media, a...

It Is Getting Tiring

Back in the 1950s, we had "Duck and Cover."With the rise of the fear of communism, and as always, the Republicans used that fear. The leader of the fear wagon was Senator Joseph Mc...

Trump Revives Old Tropes as He Pushes New 'Red Scare'

The GOP's New Red Scare

Shortly after announcing the mission of turning the 2026 midterms into a "hate election," the campaign brain trust for the Republican Party has settled on the secret-weapon epithet...

Red Scare! How the Media Will Cover the Anti-Communist Film Festival

Trump Attack on Higher Ed ‘More Serious Than McCarthy Era’

Trump Attack on Higher Ed ‘More Serious Than McCarthy Era’ Emma Whitford Wed, 08/26/2026 - 03:00 AM A new book edited by former Columbia University Presi...

The Future of the Anti-Communist Film Festival

Why Trump’s New ‘Red Scare’ Tactics Could Spell Trouble for Jews

The president’s demonization of so-called ‘communists’ echoes a previous generation’s targeting of ‘Judeo-Bolshevism’ The post Why Trump’s New ‘Red Scare’ Tactics Could Spell Troub...

Hiltzik: Republicans want to turn the clock back — to the red-baiting Fifties

Communism is so dead in most of the world that using 'communist' as a political epithet has an antique ring to it.

The Communist Conspiracy Theory Consuming the Right

For conservatives, “cultural Marxism” is a shape-shifting, decades-old bogeyman. Aja Woods’s latest book traces its origins.

Trump is continuing JFK’s war on communist subversion

When President Trump reposted a video featuring President John F. Kennedy warning about subversion in America, he renewed focus on a threat we have long ignored at our peril.Spotli...

Pinkerton: Bring Back HUAC — The House Un-American Activities Committee Is Needed Again

If we’re going to fight communism at home, we must fight it the right way.   The post Pinkerton: Bring Back HUAC — The House Un-American Activities Committee Is Needed Again appear...

McMahon's Latest Offensive on American Universities

Divisiveness is the mechanism through which President Donald Trump pursues his radical agenda, including for higher education.

The GOP’s Big Red Scare Is Really Stupid

No, Democrats aren’t communist, and the relatively small progressive surge in primaries isn’t a Bolshevik Revolution.

Pinkerton: What We Can Learn from History as We Enter Cold War 2

Communism is once again stalking the United States.  The threat is a combination of subversion and espionage from the Communist regime in China, as well as from the Democratic Soci...