Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...
In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
Instead, Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity ...
for or against Alger Hiss, for or against the Rosenbergs. The end of the Cold War produced a rush of work seeking to assess new political, archival, and conceptual openings. For the first time ...
The Hiss–Chambers affair marked the point where the Cold War came home to America ... articulate and successful former State Department official, Alger Hiss, of passing secret documents to the Soviets ...
There is now a new cold war taking shape. This is different in scope and substance compared to the one waged after the end of the Second World War. Then the contestants were what was at that time ...
loading In an extraordinary meeting that was broadcast live on Friday, Trump accused Zelenskiy of being ungrateful for U.S. aid, of showing disrespect to his country and of risking World War Three ...
Whittaker Chambers, witness at the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, 1948. Photo by Getty Images ... Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.