Joseph McCarthy

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.

Diplomatic relations, domestic repression. Plus: the truth about Joseph Welch, and a bit of family history.

The impact can linger not just for years but decades.

Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

Many recoil at the thought of stronger political parties. But revitalized parties could be exactly what our ailing democracy needs.

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953.

In the past and present, librarians have fought book bans and censorship.

A far right politics that developed in the middle of the 20th century has prevented Democrats from gaining as they have in suburbs elsewhere.

The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.

News organizations air lies from political figures more often than you’d think, but for very different reasons than Fox News.

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.

We can’t blame Joe McCarthy for this one. (Though he was a fan.)

Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.

The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.

The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.

Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives.