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The Red Scare is a period in U.S. history during which the fear of communism was the most pervasive influence on politics, culture, and everyday life. While there were two major Red Scares, the first ...

Jul. 23—The question comes up every year after the Red Scare exits The Basketball Tournament: Will they run it back next year? Jeremiah Bonsu, who helped form the first Dayton Flyers alumni team in ...

Jul. 20—The Dayton Flyers alumni team, the Red Scare, took control with a 23-0 run and cruised to an 88-74 victory against DaGuys STL in the first round of The Basketball Tournament on Saturday at UD ...

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 ...

Drawing parallels to McCarthyism, this opinion argues President Donald Trump is reviving Red Scare-style political tactics by ...

Fascism wasn’t always a bad word in the U.S. In the 1940s and 1950s, one of the charges levied by the House Un-American Activities Committee was “premature antifascism.” Largely directed at people who ...

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 ...