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In August 1950, NBC announced that the actress Jean Muir would have a lead role in a new TV show, “The Aldrich Family.” An accomplished performer on stage, Muir was set to become one of America’s ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida’s new social studies teaching standards that ...

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn at a HUAC hearing.(Getty Images) “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So begins L.P. Hartley’s masterful novel of love and memory, The ...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has been threatening to retaliate against the “radical left.” This response has echoes in American history — in the Red Scare. In the hours ...

Dasha Nekrasova is an actress and political commentator who co-hosts the popular Red Scare podcast. She is also a victim of one of the more bizarre cancel culture stories in recent memory. Over time, ...

The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida's new social studies teaching standards that other critics have ...