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Topic: Red Scare

Stephen Colbert speaks during the 2026 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony at Edison Ballroom on March 08, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America East)

Colbert: This isn't the Red Scare

Alex Galbraith
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was recently renamed The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail

Heather Digby Parton
US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump's crackdown on the left is coming

Heather Digby Parton
George Clooney as journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway. A showing will stream live Saturday night. (Bruce Glikas / Getty Images)

Murrow vs. McCarthy, again

CK Smith
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's name calling no longer works

Chauncey DeVega
Abraham Feller (great uncle of the author), Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Library of Congress)

Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery

Peter Birkenhead
Candace Owens and Harry Styles (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Candace Owens styles a Lavender Scare

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Trump revives tyrannical playbook

Stephen M. Underhill - The Conversation
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference at his New Hampshire headquarters, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 in Manchester, N.H. (Amanda Marcotte)

An FDR Democrat and US constitutionalist

Thomas I. Palley - The Globalist
Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

David Maraniss on a world "upside down"

Chauncey DeVega
Newt Gingrich; Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Shutterstock)

What Gingrich has wrong about "Crucible"

Joseph Neese
Donald Trump; Roy Cohn; Joseph McCarthy (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Getty/Keystone/Hulton Archive)

Why Trump loves to claim "witch hunt"

Paul Rosenberg
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Red Scare of 1917 and the present

Ricky Riley - Alternet
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America’s real red scare

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
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Rachel Leah
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Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet
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Today's Trumbo

David Palumbo-Liu
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"Trumbo" and the culture wars

Andrew O'Hehir

Jesse Myerson
Karl Marx, Gordon Gecko

You're wrong about communism!

Jesse Myerson
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (AP/David Schine)

Corey Robin
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