Denaturalization risks becoming a tool of political control, creating a permanent vulnerability for more than 20 million naturalized Americans.
Articles on McCarthyism
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The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.
President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
Congress has played an important role in holding federal agencies accountable since the late 1700s, but oversight can also devolve into a political circus.
From the Salem witch trials to McCarthyism and Charlie Kirk’s killing, an exaggerated fear of a particular group has resulted in repression from liberals and conservatives.
The McCarthy era in the 1950s was another politically contentious time that raised questions about how politics influences what gets taught in the classroom.
The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.
In 1967, the Supreme Court said the government usually cannot take away citizenship without a person’s consent.
Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.
The U.S. congressman from East Harlem promoted compassion in a district marked by ethnic, racial and class differences. It’s a story worth remembering in today’s divided America.
If you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic, then it’s likely you will have seen other films influenced by it.
Miller told me that he was writing at the edge of a cliff. There was a reason the Bible began with the story of Cain and Abel, brother killing brother.
It will take a lot of strategic ingenuity to fight the rise of populism. And it will get harder to do so as politicians rig the game with rules designed to reduce voting.
In the excitement, it’s easy to forget the James Webb Space Telescope’s namesake has been the subject of controversy.
Banning research ties with China, as Alberta just did, should be vetoed not only by the academic community but also the general public for its recklessness in fanning the flames of anti-Asian racism.
When President Trump claimed in a press conference that the election was being stolen from him, three major TV networks cut off their coverage. A media scholar asks if this is a turning point.
The UK government has published new guidance barring materials produced by groups opposed to capitalism from schools.
To foreigners, he was a fellow traveler who recognized the plight of the oppressed.
When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
Just like with Cold War-era red-baiting, there’s an apparent effort to discredit and undermine critics of the US government.
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