In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his ...

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Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin testifying against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts Communist ...

The trouble with McCarthyism is that once it gets going, it has a habit of ensnaring figures who were not meant to be its ...

Tom Alter was a well-respected lecturer in labour history at Texas State University. But a month ago, he was summarily sacked ...

On Feb. 9, 1950, the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, gave a radio speech in Wheeling, W.Va., in which he charged that . . . I can barely bring myself to type the next words -- not ...

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In theory, it should be possible to oppose the Israeli military actions in Gaza, and defend the rights of campus protesters, without descending into anti-Jewish tropes. In reality, not so much. Even ...

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MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire spoke to veteran political reporter Susan Glasser on Friday about Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing 1,300 State Department workers were being removed from their jobs.

It is an aspirational fascist regime. It is experimenting with authoritarianism which is leading further to the right. There ...