The naming of 160 scholars associated with “alleged antisemitic incidents” marks a shameful new chapter in the University of ...

There’s no question that the threats to free speech that have emanated from MAGA-land lately are reminiscent of the Red Scare led by the right-wing demagogue and U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in the ...

In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” It was not too long ago that the second Red Scare and the ...

Democrats and Republicans remain miles apart on nearly everything these days, but there is one point on which both parties are in complete agreement: McCarthyism is back. Under Trump 2.0, Americans in ...

The 1954 attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. Joe McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Same can be asked of today ...

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective. After 160 years of suffering the slings and arrows of official ...

The Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda is relaunching her father Henry Fonda’s free speech organization, the Committee for the First Amendment. First established in 1947 to combat the rise ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet. One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the ...