In the 1964 Cold War commentary film “Dr. Strangelove,” Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper launches a preemptive ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and the MAGA movement.

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its southern neighbour ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home ...

In American understanding, the Cold War was an ideological confrontation between freedom and democracy, on the one ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.

Another is the postwar Red Scare, when the federal government was ... For much of the country, the Cold War ended quite some time ago. But the far right has always nurtured a counternarrative ...

RISEN: The Red Scare ended partly because the world moved on. Communism was clearly not a threat to the United States. People came to realize that. Also, the Cold War simmered down. But I think ...