McCarthyism
Trump hints at deportation of Communists if he’s re-elected
June 28, 2023Deflecting attention from his own criminal indictment, the former White House occupant brings back the Red Scare.
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The Ohio woman who beat the Red Scare blacklists
April 10, 2023Anna Hass Morgan’s legacy, which has been largely wiped from local memory in Columbus, should be restored to its proper place.
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Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist
October 13, 2022Members of the motion picture industry who refused to “cooperate” by informing on themselves and others about their leftist politics were forbidden from working in the movies.
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Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany
December 17, 2021Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.
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Loyalty oaths for teachers in Florida’s new Red Scare
June 28, 2021Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida schools have become “socialism factories,” and a new law he signed will require state schools to survey the political affiliations of all their teaching staff.
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